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Excerpt from A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Boundary Spanning and Project Supervision on Turnover and Promotion in Research and Development
External information is transmitted effectively into project groups via a multi-step process. Boundary spanning individuals (that is, gatekeepers and internal liaisons) gather and understand relevant external (to the project team) information, and subsequently channel it in more meaningful terms to their more local colleagues. Boundary spanning individuals, then, perform an extremely valuable function, for they are the principal means by which exter nal ideas and information are transferred into R 0 project groups (katz and Tushman, Many boundary spanning individuals in R D are also project supervisors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
