20 Improvising around and about boundaries in open organizations

Antonio Daood and Luca Giustiniano

DOI: 10.4324/9781003171768-26

Open organizations

The increasing complexity, uncertainty, and pace of competition in our world have pushed organizations to open their boundaries, with management and organization studies sharply departing from the firm-centric view that has long dominated the field. Organizations have started to progressively “open the doors” to interorganizational collaboration (Majchrzak et al., 2015), for example, to manage complexity in the realization of projects (Brady & Davies, 2004, 2014; Jones & Lichtenstein, 2008), to jointly engage in research and development (R&D) activities (Hagedoorn, 2002; Hagedoorn & Duysters, ...

Get The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.