Trust Building and Boundary Spanning in Cross-Border Management

1Introduction

Trust Building and Boundary Spanning in Cross-Border Management

Michael W. Zhang

1.1 Background and Context

While editing this book on trust building and boundary spanning in cross-border management I am delighted to have read two most recently published works on the subjects of managing knowledge and innovation across organisational boundaries and national borders. One is the book Managing Knowledge Integration across Boundaries, edited by Tell et al. (2017) and published by Oxford University Press. The other is a Special Issue from the Journal of Management Studies on “Boundary Spanning in Global Organizations”, guest-edited by Schotter et al. (2017).

Tell et al.’s book is the culmination of their four-year research from the ...