Works
- The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organizational Structure, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1995
- Creating the boundaryless organization, Business Horizons 42(5), 5 to 10, 1999
In Organizational Structures
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The boundaryless organization
Ideas
The boundaryless organization. Organizations can make their vertical, horizontal, external, and geographic boundaries permeable so that information, resources, and ideas move freely across them. Caveat: A practitioner-scholar book drawn from consulting, with no systematic test of the form found. The four boundaries were not checked against the book itself.
Boundaryless organization. With Ulrich, Jick, and Kerr, Ashkenas described making vertical, horizontal, external, and geographic boundaries permeable. Caveat: A practitioner book; its claims rest on the authors' consulting experience.