The role of boundary maintenance and blurring in a UK collaborative research project: how researchers and health service managers made sense of new ways of working.

摘要: The paper investigates whether, how and in what circumstances boundary blurring or maintenance is productive destructive of sense collaborative research based on a case study involving researchers from two universities principal organisational stakeholders local healthcare system England between 2009 2012. Adopting narrative method, using meeting observation, document analysis interviews, we describe key sets activities the evolution collaboration, which allows us to tackle question at levels. Studying production documents their use as objects project management meetings, show these were used enable cooperation by establishing truce worldviews, giving participants better feel for game clearer perception its stakes. partnership expanded take other organisations besides formal partners, accommodated pre-existing interests but thereby sacrificed experimental ethos. In showing actors needed subvert script enact partnership, argue understanding evaluating latter co-produced outcome disputes co-orientations towards practical ideal, not an format knowledge co-production.