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Wietske Van Osch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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strategic visibility in enterprise social media implications for network formation and Boundary Spanning
Journal of Management Information Systems, 2018Co-Authors: Wietske Van Osch, Charles SteinfieldAbstract:AbstractEffective workgroups engage in team Boundary Spanning, that is, using communication ties as conduits to critical external resources. The proliferation of enterprise social media (ESM) and the associated increase in visibility of people, content, and interactions, has resulted in a widespread assumption that unlimited visibility improves Boundary Spanning. Consequently, the ESM literature has generally ignored the sentry functions of teams and failed to examine the possible strategic nature of visibility choices by ESM groups. Using log and content data from 655 ESM-based workgroups at a multinational enterprise, we contribute a deeper understanding of the distinct ways that ESM visibility—bounded or unbounded—is leveraged strategically to evoke diverse network structures, which in turn have implications for distinct Boundary-Spanning activities. Practically, these findings show that ESM present a unique opportunity for workgroups to simultaneously sustain multiple virtual spaces—with varying level...
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Team Boundary Spanning: strategic implications for the implementation and use of enterprise social media
Journal of Information Technology, 2016Co-Authors: Wietske Van Osch, Charles W SteinfieldAbstract:Recent team Boundary Spanning literature has recommended a shift toward assessing the role of virtual tools – such as social media. Simultaneously the proliferation of Enterprise Social Media (ESM) points to the need to theorize and investigate the supra-individual usage of these tools, such as their usefulness for organizational groups. This paper responds to both mandates through a theoretical integration of the team Boundary Spanning and existing ESM literature. Using data from two studies – one qualitative and one quantitative – this papers addresses two important research questions regarding the empirical relationship between team Boundary Spanning and ESM for understanding (i) the types of team Boundary-Spanning activities that group members enact through ESM and (ii) the effects of ESM on extra-team stakeholders’ perceptions and reciprocating actions vis-à-vis the team Boundary-Spanning activities of these group members. The results of this study show that ESM, largely as a function of their visibility affordance, supports a narrow set of representational activities, but offers only limited support for information search and coordination. Furthermore, the findings reveal that ESM activity has a positive effect on extra-team stakeholders’ recognition and financial support of the representational ESM posts emanating from the Boundary-Spanning group. Important implications for theory, strategy, and design are discussed.
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team Boundary Spanning through enterprise social media exploring the effects of group level diversity using a data science approach
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2016Co-Authors: Wietske Van Osch, Charles Steinfield, Yanjie ZhaoAbstract:Effective work groups engage in team Boundary Spanning, that is, the use of communication ties as conduits to critical external resources. With the proliferation of social media technologies in enterprise settings and the associated increase in visibility of communication ties, understanding their impact on Boundary Spanning becomes imperative to improving cross-Boundary knowledge creation and management inside organizations. In this paper, drawing on log data from 415 unique work groups in an enterprise social media (ESM) system, we use a machine learning approach to automatically detect three distinct team Boundary-Spanning activities. Using zero-inflated poisson regressions, we further show the effect of group visibility as well as three distinct sources of group structural diversity -- geographic, functional, and hierarchical -- on the extent to which teams engage in Boundary Spanning through ESM. Implications for theory and practice around the use of data science approaches as well as visibility and diversity constructs for understanding team Boundary Spanning are discussed.
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Boundary Spanning through enterprise social software an external stakeholder perspective
International Conference on Information Systems, 2013Co-Authors: Wietske Van Osch, Charles SteinfieldAbstract:Recent Boundary Spanning literature has recommended a shift toward assessing the role of virtual tools—such as social media. Simultaneously the proliferation of Enterprise Social Software (ESS) points to the need to theorize and investigate the supra-individual usage of these tools. This exploratory study responds to both mandates through a longitudinal, multi-method investigation of ESS’ effects on Boundary Spanning by virtual research teams within a worldwide provider of workplace solutions. Combining survey, ESS log, and content data, this study complements the dominant internal focus of the Boundary Spanning literature with an external stakeholder perspective to analyze the types of Boundary Spanning activities enacted through ESS, the perceptions of these activities by external parties, as well as the effect of ESS hereon. Disentangling ESS’ effects on Boundary Spanning not only extends our current understanding of the potential role of social media, but can further inform the design of supportive tools.
Reinhilde Veugelers - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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taste for science academic Boundary Spanning and inventive performance of scientists and engineers in industry
Industrial and Corporate Change, 2020Co-Authors: Sam Arts, Reinhilde VeugelersAbstract:Matching survey data on PhD scientists and engineers currently working in an R&D job in industry with publications and patents, we study the relation between their individual motives and the rate and nature of their inventive output. We find that individuals with a strong taste for science, that is motivated by intellectual challenge, autonomy, and contribution to society, create more novel and impactful patents in industry. These individuals are also more involved in academic Boundary Spanning, proxied by scientific publications co-authored with academic scientists, and this Boundary Spanning partially mediates the effect of taste for science on impactful inventive output. In contrast, individuals with a strong taste for salary and career collaborate less with academic scientists, fully mediating the negative effect of taste for salary and career on impactful inventive output.
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taste for science academic Boundary Spanning and inventive performance of scientists and engineers in industry
Social Science Research Network, 2018Co-Authors: Sam Arts, Reinhilde VeugelersAbstract:Matching survey data on Ph.D. scientists and engineers currently working in an R&D job in industry with their publications and patents, we study the relationship between their individual traits and the nature of their inventive performance. We find that individuals with a strong taste for science, i.e. motivated by intellectual challenge, independence, and contribution to society, create more novel and impactful patents. Academic Boundary Spanning, proxied by scientific publications co-authored with academic scientists, mediates the effect of taste for science, but only partly and only on impact-weighted inventive output. For novelty of inventive output, we find no mediation through academic Boundary Spanning. Individuals with a strong taste for salary collaborate less with academic scientists, fully mediating the negative effect of taste for salary on impact-weighted inventive output.
Charles Steinfield - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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strategic visibility in enterprise social media implications for network formation and Boundary Spanning
Journal of Management Information Systems, 2018Co-Authors: Wietske Van Osch, Charles SteinfieldAbstract:AbstractEffective workgroups engage in team Boundary Spanning, that is, using communication ties as conduits to critical external resources. The proliferation of enterprise social media (ESM) and the associated increase in visibility of people, content, and interactions, has resulted in a widespread assumption that unlimited visibility improves Boundary Spanning. Consequently, the ESM literature has generally ignored the sentry functions of teams and failed to examine the possible strategic nature of visibility choices by ESM groups. Using log and content data from 655 ESM-based workgroups at a multinational enterprise, we contribute a deeper understanding of the distinct ways that ESM visibility—bounded or unbounded—is leveraged strategically to evoke diverse network structures, which in turn have implications for distinct Boundary-Spanning activities. Practically, these findings show that ESM present a unique opportunity for workgroups to simultaneously sustain multiple virtual spaces—with varying level...
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team Boundary Spanning through enterprise social media exploring the effects of group level diversity using a data science approach
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2016Co-Authors: Wietske Van Osch, Charles Steinfield, Yanjie ZhaoAbstract:Effective work groups engage in team Boundary Spanning, that is, the use of communication ties as conduits to critical external resources. With the proliferation of social media technologies in enterprise settings and the associated increase in visibility of communication ties, understanding their impact on Boundary Spanning becomes imperative to improving cross-Boundary knowledge creation and management inside organizations. In this paper, drawing on log data from 415 unique work groups in an enterprise social media (ESM) system, we use a machine learning approach to automatically detect three distinct team Boundary-Spanning activities. Using zero-inflated poisson regressions, we further show the effect of group visibility as well as three distinct sources of group structural diversity -- geographic, functional, and hierarchical -- on the extent to which teams engage in Boundary Spanning through ESM. Implications for theory and practice around the use of data science approaches as well as visibility and diversity constructs for understanding team Boundary Spanning are discussed.
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Boundary Spanning through enterprise social software an external stakeholder perspective
International Conference on Information Systems, 2013Co-Authors: Wietske Van Osch, Charles SteinfieldAbstract:Recent Boundary Spanning literature has recommended a shift toward assessing the role of virtual tools—such as social media. Simultaneously the proliferation of Enterprise Social Software (ESS) points to the need to theorize and investigate the supra-individual usage of these tools. This exploratory study responds to both mandates through a longitudinal, multi-method investigation of ESS’ effects on Boundary Spanning by virtual research teams within a worldwide provider of workplace solutions. Combining survey, ESS log, and content data, this study complements the dominant internal focus of the Boundary Spanning literature with an external stakeholder perspective to analyze the types of Boundary Spanning activities enacted through ESS, the perceptions of these activities by external parties, as well as the effect of ESS hereon. Disentangling ESS’ effects on Boundary Spanning not only extends our current understanding of the potential role of social media, but can further inform the design of supportive tools.
Christopher Cvitanovic - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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evaluating the impacts of Boundary Spanning activities at the interface of environmental science and policy a review of progress and future research needs
Environmental Science & Policy, 2019Co-Authors: Christopher Cvitanovic, Stephen PosnerAbstract:Environmental organizations, programs, and research efforts are increasingly interested in Spanning the boundaries between science and policy so that decision making processes are informed by the most current and best available scientific knowledge. ‘Boundary Spanning’ is a practice that has been developed to help in this regard, by enabling knowledge exchange between communities of science and policy and actively shaping complex science-policy landscapes. However, despite an increasing number of claims about the benefits that can arise as a result of Boundary-Spanning activities, more work is needed to evidence and demonstrate the impacts of Boundary-Spanning efforts. This is a challenging prospect as such impacts occur in complex social and ecological systems; involve subtle, gradual, and difficult-to-track changes; and elude conventional evaluation methods that fail to capture the complexity of real world science and decision making contexts. Understanding, evaluating, and demonstrating impacts would strengthen the Boundary Spanning field by helping to clarify general principles for what success looks like and how to measure it. In the near term, evaluation as a core component of growing a community of practice can motivate practitioners to articulate specific intended outcomes, orient toward common goals, and compare impacts across different cases. In the long term, more thoughtful evaluation can improve the effectiveness of Boundary Spanning and further contribute to the development of a professional community of practice. This paper reflects on the current practice of Boundary Spanning, reviews studies that demonstrate the impact of Boundary-Spanning activities through different methodological approaches, and recommends future directions for research and practice relating to impact evaluation.
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Boundary Spanning at the science policy interface the practitioners perspectives
Sustainability Science, 2018Co-Authors: Angela T Bednarek, Carina Wyborn, Christopher Cvitanovic, Ryan Meyer, Rebecca Colvin, Prue F E Addison, S L Close, K Curran, Mahmud Farooque, Erica GoldmanAbstract:Cultivating a more dynamic relationship between science and policy is essential for responding to complex social challenges such as sustainability. One approach to doing so is to “span the boundaries” between science and decision making and create a more comprehensive and inclusive knowledge exchange process. The exact definition and role of Boundary Spanning, however, can be nebulous. Indeed, Boundary Spanning often gets conflated and confused with other approaches to connecting science and policy, such as science communication, applied science, and advocacy, which can hinder progress in the field of Boundary Spanning. To help overcome this, in this perspective, we present the outcomes from a recent workshop of Boundary-Spanning practitioners gathered to (1) articulate a definition of what it means to work at this interface (“Boundary Spanning”) and the types of activities it encompasses; (2) present a value proposition of these efforts to build better relationships between science and policy; and (3) identify opportunities to more effectively mainstream Boundary-Spanning activities. Drawing on our collective experiences, we suggest that Boundary Spanning has the potential to increase the efficiency by which useful research is produced, foster the capacity to absorb new evidence and perspectives into sustainability decision-making, enhance research relevance for societal challenges, and open new policy windows. We provide examples from our work that illustrate this potential. By offering these propositions for the value of Boundary Spanning, we hope to encourage a more robust discussion of how to achieve evidence-informed decision-making for sustainability.
Charles W Steinfield - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Team Boundary Spanning: strategic implications for the implementation and use of enterprise social media
Journal of Information Technology, 2016Co-Authors: Wietske Van Osch, Charles W SteinfieldAbstract:Recent team Boundary Spanning literature has recommended a shift toward assessing the role of virtual tools – such as social media. Simultaneously the proliferation of Enterprise Social Media (ESM) points to the need to theorize and investigate the supra-individual usage of these tools, such as their usefulness for organizational groups. This paper responds to both mandates through a theoretical integration of the team Boundary Spanning and existing ESM literature. Using data from two studies – one qualitative and one quantitative – this papers addresses two important research questions regarding the empirical relationship between team Boundary Spanning and ESM for understanding (i) the types of team Boundary-Spanning activities that group members enact through ESM and (ii) the effects of ESM on extra-team stakeholders’ perceptions and reciprocating actions vis-à-vis the team Boundary-Spanning activities of these group members. The results of this study show that ESM, largely as a function of their visibility affordance, supports a narrow set of representational activities, but offers only limited support for information search and coordination. Furthermore, the findings reveal that ESM activity has a positive effect on extra-team stakeholders’ recognition and financial support of the representational ESM posts emanating from the Boundary-Spanning group. Important implications for theory, strategy, and design are discussed.