Open AccessOrganizational boundaries – Contribution to conceptualization
Author(s) -
Piotr Pachura
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
scientific journal of the military university of land forces
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2545-0719
pISSN - 2544-7122
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0013.0730
Subject(s) - conceptualization , mainstream , epistemology , field (mathematics) , sociology , perspective (graphical) , organizational studies , boundary (topology) , engineering ethics , knowledge management , organization development , political science , computer science , engineering , philosophy , mathematics , artificial intelligence , pure mathematics , law , mathematical analysis
The issue of organizational boundaries is a problem discussed from the beginning of the development of the theory of management sciences. Today, it seems that this issue should be subjected to a new conceptualization due to the growing importance of multidimen-sional spaces in which enterprises operate and the erosion of traditionally interpreted boundaries. At the same time, the notion of a boundary itself is an ambigous concept that derived from and rooted mainly in non-management sciences. Therefore, research on or-ganizational boundaries requires an interdisciplinary approach. In the Polish management science environment, the discussion on border issues is clearly visible, although this is not a question that dominates the mainstream. The aim of the article is to contribute to a sci-entific discussion in the field of conceptualization of organizational boundaries in the con-text of a changing reality. The article consists of an introduction, a part devoted to the analysis of organizational boundaries in the perspective of heterogeneous spaces and a part related to presenting the problem of the emergence of "new" boundaries. The whole is concluded with a summary. The article is a review based on interdisciplinary literature research.