Boundaryless World Research Articles

A World Full of Creativity

Republic of Imagination. That is what Iranian-American writer Azar Nafisi calls the land of belonging for those that don’t belong anywhere but belong everywhere. As she puts it, it is a place that is intensely personal but shared globally.The Republic of Imagination. Sublime.Sublime because nothing drives the need to belong and connect like not belonging and not connecting. Sublime because The Republic of Imagination belongs to all sof us. Sublime because I am a resident of that republic. Today, we are announcing a three-year partnership with Tsinghua University and Zhuangshi Journal of Art and Design. During this time, we will publish three special, bilingual issues of Leonardo examining key and emerging concepts in design and technology. Anchored around a global call for papers, we invite and seek to include diverse views on issues impacting our planet and species.While we have been in conversations for years, the fact that our journey is beginning at a time of tension reminiscent of decades ago, is ironic. This partnership is a reflection of our history, our legacy, and our mission. Leonardo journal’s founder, Frank Malina, envisioned international cooperation on earth and believed in open information exchange. This partnership is the natural result of the friendship between Malina and Tsien Hsue-Shen that began in the 1940s and the collaboration with Shao Dazen, co-editor of the journal in the 1970s. Frank Malina looked beyond walls and past curtains to build connections between people and build trust. This partnership is very Leonardo.Today, what I think of is the global community connected through our imagination and buoyed by our creativity. What I find ironic is that while some recognize and expand the definition of stakeholders of our future to multispecies participants, others focus on redrawing lines on paper that limit our ability to fully harness our collective power to address critical planetary issues.We want to amplify the magic that occurs when hybrid creatives cross boundaries, color outside the lines, and unleash their imagination. We will learn together, learn from each other and create a platform for exchanging ideas on crucial topics.We will collaborate, we will critique, and we will imagine together.Join our boundaryless world of creativity.

Organizational career management in a protean and boundaryless world: A mixed-methods study

Employee development is integral component of strategic human resources management. Many career theorists have said that organizational responsibility for career management has decreased, yet few studies have examined these changes. We place organizational career management (OCM) under the research microscope in two linked studies. First, data on the types and frequencies of individual OCM practices used and reported in the 1996, 1999, 2006, 2008/2009, and 2015 Australian Cranet surveys was examined. Counterintuitive findings indicate that the use of more than half the OCM practices increased over time. Second, we interviewed 17 employees to investigate their perception of OCM. Employees identified both formal and informal OCM, and findings highlighted that rather than operating in opposition, individually- driven career development and OCM are working in partnership. These findings indicate OCM remains an important component of an overall human resources strategy.

Navigating Close Relationships at Work: Challenges of Connecting in a Boundaryless World

Close personal relationships with colleagues have been shown to positively influence a number of key individual and group outcomes at work. However, technological changes and trends toward flatter ...

Boundary management in a boundaryless world

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship of flexible and permeable boundary management with both life domain conflict and life domain enrichment among expatriate workers.Design/methodology/approachThis study utilizes a sample of 199 expatriates working in a higher education context, and analyses survey data with hierarchical regression analysis and cluster analysis.FindingsRelationships between the permeability and the flexibility of life domains, and work-private life conflict, private life-work conflict, and work-private life enrichment were found. However, no significant results were obtained for the relationship between boundary management and private life-work enrichment. Two clusters of boundary management used by expatriates are described.Research limitations/implicationsDue to cross-sectional data, causal influences cannot be determined with confidence.Practical implicationsThe findings underscore the need to consider the role-related stakeholders of expatriates, especially in the private life domain. Implications for the support of expatriates based on the boundary management clusters are discussed.Originality/valueThis is the first study analysing boundary management distinguishing between flexibility and permeability in an expatriate context.

Três cenários educacionais para o futuro: lições da sociologia do conhecimento

<em><em></em></em><p align="LEFT">O presente texto se baseia em enfoques oriundos da sociologia do conhecimento e, em vista deles, constrói três cenários para o futuro da educação nas próximas décadas. O principal foco recai sobre uma das mais cruciais questões enfrentadas pelos formuladores de políticas educacionais – a relação entre a escola e o conhecimento da vida cotidiana ou do senso comum. As diferentes possibilidades sobre como as fronteiras entre conhecimento escolar e não escolar devem ser abordadas são expressas em três cenários – “fronteiras dadas”, “um mundo sem fronteiras” e a ideia da “manutenção das fronteiras como condição para seu cruzamento”. As implicações educacionais de cada cenário são exploradas e argumenta-se em favor do terceiro deles. Consideram-se também os fatores que podem fazer com que um ou outro desses cenários domine nas políticas educacionais.</p>

Relevance Of Cultural Intelligence And Communication Effectiveness For Global Leadership Preparedness: Study Of Indian Managers

Business environment world over has undergone major transformation in the last fifty years. Global organisations, where operations are not restricted to home or host country, need business leaders with a global mindset and multicultural effectiveness. This paper examines and confirms the relevance on leadership preparedness of global managers of two important constructs – cultural intelligence and communication effectiveness in the context of anxiety and uncertainty management. Adding to extant literature, the study empirically confirms the suitability of three assessment instruments. It establishes the importance of cultural adaptability and AUM theory for assessing leadership potential of managers working in multicultural environments with culturally diverse teams. The objective of this study is to understand the relevance of cultural intelligence and communication effectiveness for leadership preparedness in a multicultural environment. The present century is seeing accelerated transformation of businesses into truly global entities. As organizations operate in a boundary-less world, multicultural teams are the order of the day. Business leaders, who are able to understand, accept, and effectively respond to cultural differences are therefore in great demand.

Employee Electronic Communications in a Boundaryless World

In 2007, the National Labor Relations Board decided that an employer could maintain an email communications policy that prohibits nonwork-related messages, even if those messages involved communications otherwise protected under the National Labor Relations Act. In December 2014, the National Labor Relations Board reversed this holding, but in doing so, limited its decision to just workplace email. This article argues that such a prescription is outdated and archaic in light of today’s modern workplace filled with communications devices and systems that blur the distinction between work and personal life. This article explains that such a prescription can cause employees to turn to personal communications options to discuss concerns that don’t necessarily involve work itself, but do involve the workplace; an environment that, ironically, can sometimes provide more legal protection for employees and greater potential legal liabilities for employers compared to if those same “nonwork-related” messages were communicated through the employer’s communications system.

Reorienting: Career to “Protean Career” in a Boundaryless World

Reorienting: Career to “Protean Career” in a Boundaryless World

Marketing meets Web 2.0, social media, and creative consumers: Implications for international marketing strategy

The 21st century has brought both opportunities and challenges in our global, boundaryless world. Importantly, managers face a dynamic and interconnected international environment. As such, 21st century managers need to consider the many opportunities and threats that Web 2.0, social media, and creative consumers present and the resulting respective shifts in loci of activity, power, and value. To help managers understand this new dispensation, we propose five axioms: (1) social media are always a function of the technology, culture, and government of a particular country or context; (2) local events rarely remain local; (3) global events are likely to be (re)interpreted locally; (4) creative consumers’ actions and creations are also dependent on technology, culture, and government; and (5) technology is historically dependent. At the heart of these axioms is the managerial recommendation to continually stay up to date on technology, customers, and social media. To implement this managerial recommendation, marketers must truly engage customers, embrace technology, limit the power of bureaucracy, train and invest in their employees, and inform senior management about the opportunities of social media.

Shared service centers and professional employability

This paper presents case study evidence of evolutionary changes in business support functions resulting in a fundamental hollowing out of the professional space over time and distance, creating the ‘hourglass’ profession. In an IT-enabled, boundaryless world, many professional activities can now be undertaken, in the manner of the Martini slogan, ‘any time, any place, anywhere’. This paper aims: ⁎ To investigate the shared service center as an emerging organizational form with the potential to drive fundamental change in the nature and location of professional work. ⁎ To explore the impact of these changes for individual professional workers, and to highlight the need for a greater focus on individual employability as the driver of an overall career trajectory.

Avatar Obama in the age of liquid celebrity

Barak Obama, orator extraordinaire, the embodiment of the American success myth, ‘global’ prophet of the adoring masses and multi-media auratic figure, is the leading illustration of what is the expanded nexus of celebrity, spectacle and politics in the age of what Zygmund Bauman refers to as liquid modernity or ‘the era of disembedding without re-embedding’ (2001, p. 89). This is the era in which a traumatic sense of fear, uncertainty and transience defines one's relationship to the nation state, and social (media) centre, as they lose their economic singularity and cultural coherency and cohesiveness in a world system ever inter-connected and driven increasingly, incessantly by supra-corporate concerns and spectacular celebrity-based presentations. In this world of ‘togetherness dismantled’ (Bauman 2003, p. 119), the disenfranchised individual feels they cannot meet the trans-capital intensive, show reel-like, boundaryless world on solid ground. That adoration, or a liquefied definition of it, is key to this imagined and affective communion between Obama and those who adore him, suggests that there is a terrible wanting and simultaneous waning to those who look for such rootedness and the promise of deliverance in the celebrity political figure. This is a charismatic authority figure who promises this solidity yet streams in and out of material view, unable to fix or properly propagate their communion beyond triumphant spectacularism. Their ‘lightness of being’ (ibid, p. 123–9) is powerfully seductive and decidedly empty because it echoes the instantaneous (instant) way in which all lives are increasingly led. I will suggest that liquid celebrity is one of the cornerstones of liquid modernity, and Barack Obama is the epitome of this ‘runniness’.

Alternative Ways of Organising: Asian Labour’s Response to the ‘New’ Globalisation: Introduction

Globalisation--when defined as the 'linking of distinct localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring miles away and vice versa' (Giddens 1990: 64)--is nothing new. However, the most recent wave of globalisation has distinctive features. Rather than being linked to the activity of identifiably imperialist powers such as Britain or France, post-1960s globalisation is driven by often faceless investment interests using vehicles other than the nationstate. These include transnational corporations who have no clearly identifiable home country base, and global structures such as the WTO (World Trade Organization), which have erected a 'boundaryless world' that prioritises capitals' interests over those of the nation-state or labour. This 'new globalisation' is modelled on an American style of neoliberalism under which the conduct of individuals, groups and nations is clearly dominated by economic imperatives. American neo-liberalism promotes a minimalist approach to social obligations while maximizing economic interests; it differs from the Ordo neo-liberalism practised in Europe, which combines free market ideas with the need for social welfare provisions (Emy 1993). However, both forms of neo-liberalism have had significant effects on society. Not only does neo-liberal ideology seek to eliminate restrictions and regulations such as tariffs, quotas and other tariff and non tariff barriers, it also seeks to actively construct an enterprise culture (Peters 1996), or enterprise mentality, that prioritises market or economic interests above social needs. Individualism not collectivism, user pays not social justice, become the dominant values guiding the conduct of individuals, groups and nations operating within this framework of governance as each person, group, or community of persons, aims to carve out their own 'best deal'. These principles drive the export-oriented model of industrial development (EOI) that now dominates the economies of Asia. EOI advocates argue that a reassertion of the primacy of economic growth and market interests reduces poverty and generates prosperity in newly industrialising environments (NIEs) (see Balassa 1981; Krueger 1985). The International Monetary Fund's promotion of EOI, along with the rapid growth achieved~by Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong, encouraged other Asian countries to adopt EOI policies. As a result, EOI has become the industrial development model of choice in the region, even in previously closed or centrally managed economies such as India, Vietnam and now of course China. This pathway has been pursued with relative ease because most Asian NIE economies were governed by authoritarian or single party democratic regimes, which erected legislative and regulatory frameworks to proactively promote EOI even when social costs were incurred. Asian governments' commitment to export-driven economic growth has had serious implications for labour. Exchange controls, guarantees concerning repatriation of investment, taxation and general industry assistance schemes to attract investment were complemented by an industrial relations model characterized by restrictions on freedom of association, collective bargaining and the right to strike. These governments tightly controlled remuneration and workplace conditions to match the needs of international capital, as opposed to broader community needs. In summary, the Asian labour-management model has heightened the vulnerability of Asian workers in comparison to those working in more industrialised environments. Collective resistance is not only difficult to co-ordinate within this paradigm; it is also difficult to stimulate. However, the papers in this symposium suggest that the harsh regimes of labour control characteristic of Asia's EOI economies have not been able to eliminate labour collectivity altogether. Rather, they have encouraged novel forms of labour activism both within the tradition of unionism and beyond it. …

Ethical Issues in Contemporary Human Resource Management

PART ONE: THE ETHICAL CONTEXT FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Introduction D.Winstanley & J.Woodall The Ethical Context of HRM: the Ethical Organisation in the Boundaryless World K.Legge PART TWO: AREAS OF ETHICAL INQUIRY IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT What Ethics in the Employment Interview? L.Spence Occupational Testing and Psychometric Instruments: an Ethical Perspective B.Baker & J.Cooper Ethics and Equality: Reconciling False Dilemmas S.Liff & L.Dickens HRM and Employee Well-Being: Raising the Ethical Stakes N.Doherty & S.Tyson Winning Hearts and Minds: Ethical Issues in Human Resource Development J.Woodall & D.Douglas Flexible Working Patterns C.Stanworth Presenteeism and the Impact of Long Working Hours on Managers in the UK R.Simpson The New Pay: Risk and Representation at Work E.Heery Conditions of Worth and the Performance Management Paradox D.Winstanley Employee Participation and Involvement T.Claydon PART THREE: ETHICAL INTERVENTION IN PRACTICE Conducting a Social Audit: Lessons from the Body Shop Experience M.Sillanpaa & C.Jackson Staff Charters: A Framework for Identifying the Rights and Responsibilities of Employers and their Staff P.Taylor & P.Jones Whistleblowing D.Lewis Concluding Comments: Ethical Frameworks for Action J.Woodall & D.Winstanley

Adapting to a boundaryless world: A developmental expatriate model

Executive Overview Expatriate executives face a double-edged challenge to their mental and physical health: The stressors affecting them are not only new and unfamiliar, but the coping responses that worked at home may not do so abroad. The various stages involved in a successful adjustment are discussed. The executive's ability to identify with the host and the parent culture plays a critical role in every stage of the adjustment process. Failure to accept that the two cultural identities are not mutually exclusive is a source of internal conflict among expatriates. Cross-cultural competence training and a sensible repatriation plan help buffer the stressors encountered abroad. However, the willingness and courage to undergo the profound personal transformation associated with an international assignment are essential for a healthy expatriate adjustment, even after the expatriate's return. Learning to live with the paradox of dual identification is an essential coping mechanism for expatriate executives.

TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT DIVISION.

Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings includes abstracts of all papers and symposia presented at the annual conference, plus 6-page abridged versions of the “Best Papers” accepted for inclusion in the program (approximately 10%). Papers published in the Proceedings are abridged because presenting papers at their full length could preclude subsequent journal publication. Please contact the author(s) directly for the full papers. ArticlesTECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT DIVISION.Published Online:13 Dec 2017https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.1993.10317212AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsDownload CitationsAdd to favoritesTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail AbstractThe article presents several research papers which discuss various issues regarding technology and innovation in the management of corporations. The paper "Differentiating the Map From the Territory: A Case Study of How Project Management Contributes to Boundaryless World Leadership Through Knowledge Creation and Dissemination," by Chester C. Borucki presents a comparative analysis of global project management activities within a FORTUNE 100 firm and its recent major European acquisition. The results indicate that differences outweigh similarities in relationships between North American and European activities across project lifecycle stages. Implications for this firm's efforts to become one global company are discussed along with directions for future research. The paper "Effective Structuring of Product Development Groups in U.S. Firms: An Information Processing Perspective" provides an empirical investigation of structural forms that are associated with high performance in different types of product development projects. An information processing perspective that takes into consideration unique informational characteristics of product development processes is adopted for the purpose of this study.FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Vol. 1993, No. 1 Permissions Metrics in the past 12 months History Published online 13 December 2017 Published in print 1 August 1993 InformationCopyright of Academy of Management Journal is the property of Academy of Management and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder’s express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.KeywordsTECHNOLOGICAL innovationsNEW productsMANUFACTURING processesMANAGEMENTORGANIZATIONAL behaviorLEADERSHIPDownload PDF

A new paradigm for customer and supplier relationships

AbstractAs boundaries between companies blur, the traditional assumptions that have guided relationships between suppliers and customers for much of the past century may need to be recrafted. This article examines these old assumptions and their limitations and suggests a new set of assumptions—a new paradigm—to guide companies towards greater competitiveness in the boundaryless world of the '90s and beyond. The Human Resource function can play a leadership role in the transformation to this new paradigm—using four strategies that are outlined here.

Using Sexton to Read Freud:

In her poem "Rapunzel," Anne Sexton maps out a model of lesbian etiology that at once parodies the model proposed by Freud and significantly amends it. Freud's famous model for female development, as he articulates it first in "Some Psychological Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction Between the Sexes," and later in "Female Sexuality," may be profitably compared to the model implied by Sexton's poem. The female pre-Oedipal phase is crucially at stake in such a comparison, as Sexton's account suggests that the pleasures of the pre-Oedipal mother-daughter dyad are dangerously strong for the girl child, and seem to be the force that compels the majority of girls into the rechanneling of libidinal desire from the mother to the father. Sexton's poem emphasizes the continuous pressures exerted by the pre-Oedipal phase upon the psyche of the developing girl. Sexton's emphasis on the pre-Oedipal phase, and her depiction of heterosexual love, in "Rapunzel" and elsewhere, as regressive, suggests that the "normal" heterosexual female, who seeks a father figure in order to save herself from re-absorption into the primal mother-daughter dyad, is actually acting out an infantile fantasy of the devouring mother. The morbid irony of Sexton's "Rapunzel" stems from its depiction of a young woman who flees the boundary-less world of the pre-Oedipal state, only to resurrect the infantile fantasy of the devouring mother in the arms of a father substitute.