Boundary Objects Reconsidered: from Bridges and Anchors to Barricades and Mazes
Boundary Objects Reconsidered: from Bridges and Anchors to Barricades and Mazes
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重新考虑边界对象：从桥梁和锚到路障和迷宫
DOI：
10.1080/14697010902879137
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
M. Robertson
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作者：
C. Oswick;M. Robertson
边界对象在现有文献中被认为在发起和促进变革方面发挥着关键作用，因为它们被认为是跨专业知识领域转化知识和改变实践的重要手段。边界对象通常是在变革方案中开发和使用的，以便为不同知识和实践领域的交流提供一个共同的参考框架。在本文中，一种替代框架，基于边界对象作为文本的形式，开发。三种话语方法被用来重新分析现有的文献贡献。首先，“互文性分析”（艾伦，2000年）被应用到布朗（2004年）的工作，对公共调查报告。第二，“重新语境化”（伯恩斯坦，1996）被用来重新考虑Sapsed和Salter（2004）的工作项目管理工具。最后，利用Iedema（1999）的“形式化”概念重新检验了甘特图（Yakura，2002）。通过对边界对象的话语分析，边界对象的权力含义在作者身份、读者群和多声性方面被放大，这表明在某些情况下边界对象可能起着“桥梁和锚”的作用（星星和Griesemer，1989年，第414页）支持和促进变革，在其他国家，它们可能同样被视为路障和迷宫，强化现有的权力结构和职业等级制度，并为变革制造障碍。
Boundary objects have been presented in the extant literature as playing a pivotal role in initiating and facilitating change as they are considered to be an important means of transforming knowledge and changing practice across specialist knowledge domains. Boundary objects are typically developed and used in change programmes to provide a common frame of reference for communication across different domains of knowledge and practice. In this paper an alternative framing, based upon boundary objects as forms of texts, is developed. Three discursive approaches are used to re-analyze existing contributions to the literature. First, ‘intertextual analysis’ (Allen, 2000) is applied to Brown's (2004) work on public inquiry reports. Second, ‘recontextualization’ (Bernstein, 1996) is used to reconsider Sapsed and Salter's (2004) work on project management tools. Finally, Gantt charts (Yakura, 2002) are re-examined using Iedema's (1999) concept of ‘formalization’. By providing a discursive analysis of boundary objects the power implications of boundary objects are amplified in terms of aspects of authorship, readership and plurivocality which suggest that whilst in some instances boundary objects may operate as ‘bridges and anchors’ (Star and Griesemer, 1989, p. 414) supporting and promoting change, in others they might equally be perceived as barricades and mazes, reinforcing existing power structures and occupational hierarchies, and creating barriers to change.