Boundary organizations have three key characteristics. First of all, they include the involvement of scientists and politicians, along with professionals who coordinate them. Secondly, boundary organizations provide chances and reasons to create boundary objects. For example, mediums that can help different parties within the boundary organizations to communicate with each other. Last but not least, they have a responsibility to ensure that research and policy groups can understand each other since these two communities are very different from each other. Methodology Boundary organizations are frequently applied in complicated situations to manage and encourage the knowledge-producing process because of their ability to analyze problems from multiple aspects and generate various solutions for decision-makers. The success of boundary organizations depends on the leaders of both the scientific and political communities to provide them with useful resources . A productive boundary organization would have the capability of pleasing both central agencies, maintaining internal instability and external stability beyond the actual border. An organization is successful in carrying out these actions can be seen as the stability of boundaries. The tasks of boundary organizations are complicated but well-organized. One strength of boundary organizations is that they encourage communication between experts from different communities during the knowledge-transfer and knowledge-producing processes. The participants of boundary organizations can discuss issues, prioritize researches, plan the rehabilitation, conduct surveys, and take parts in other programs at the same time. Because the work of boundary organizations needs the joint efforts of various communities and is beneficial for all participants, boundary organizations take a unique place in the society which is extremely hard and nearly impossible for other groups or organizations to replace. As a matter of fact, some researches have suggested that boundary organization structure shows the direction for many current organizations to transform and grow. Weaknesses The problems of boundary organizations include the different interest of scientific and political communities, the divergences in the culture and knowledge transfer process, and the lack of productive cooperation between scientists and politicians .
Boundary organizations have three key characteristics. First of all, they include the involvement of scientists and politicians, along with Professionals who coordinate them. Secondly, boundary organizations provide chances and reasons to create Boundary objects. For example, mediums that can help different parties within the boundary organizations to communicate with each other. Last but not least, they have a responsibility to ensure that research and policy groups can understand each other since these two communities are very different from each other. Methodology Boundary organizations are frequently applied in complicated situations to manage and encourage the knowledge-producing process because of their ability to analyze problems from multiple aspects and generate various solutions for decision-makers. The success of boundary organizations depends on the leaders of both the scientific and political communities to provide them with useful resource . A productive boundary organization would have the capability of pleasing both central agencies, maintaining internal instability and external stability beyond the actual border. An organization is successful in carrying out these actions can be seen as the stability of boundaries. The tasks of boundary organizations are complicated but well-organized. One strength of boundary organizations is that they encourage communication between Experts from different communities during the knowledge-transfer and knowledge-producing processes. The participants of boundary organizations can discuss issues, prioritize researches, plan the rehabilitation, conduct surveys, and take parts in other programs at the same time. Because the work of boundary organizations needs the joint efforts of various communities and is beneficial for all participants, boundary organizations take a unique place in the society which is extremely hard and nearly impossible for other groups or organizations to replace. As a matter of fact, some researches have suggested that boundary organization structure shows the direction for many current organizations to transform and grow. Weaknesses The problems of boundary organizations include the different interest of scientific and political communities, the divergences in the culture and knowledge transfer process, and the lack of productive cooperation between scientists and Politicians .
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