The First Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet Devoted to the Fields of Public Administration and Management. Organizations are more like nations, clans, and tribes, than they are like rational units, mechanistic entities, or a set of scientific management processes. View Full Article . Applications of Boundary Theory to Organizational and Inter-Organizational Culture Alexis A. Halley Culture and boundary are basic theoretical terms in the social sciences.
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To discover questions for future practice and theory-building, this analysis reframes organizational culture into the terms of boundary theory. The need to do so is occasioned by globalization and the collapse of the Cold War. Conclusions and a research agenda are suggested to continue work linking the theory and practice of boundaries to organizational culture, especially through boundary spanning as intercultural leadership and learning. View Full Article . The relationship between individual personality and organizational culture is a topic typically considered in theoretical terms.