Works
- Organizational boundaries and theories of organization, Organization Science 16(5), 491 to 508, 2005
- Constructing markets and shaping boundaries: entrepreneurial power in nascent fields, Academy of Management Journal 52(4), 643 to 671, 2009
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Theories of organizational boundaries
Ideas
Four conceptions of boundaries. With Eisenhardt, Santos set out four conceptions of organizational boundaries, efficiency, power, competence, and identity, as a broader view than the transaction cost and related exchange-efficiency perspectives that dominate research on boundaries. Caveat: Conceptual; read in its abstract only.
In this section, “read” means read by the Organizational Structures series: where a line says a work, or part of one, was not read, the series did not read it.