抄録
Currently, boundary crossing ― activities outside of daily contexts ― is
becoming more important. Boundary crossing both improves peoples’ work
productivity and also enriches their career, thus providing various values
to individuals and organizations. Such a notion has increasingly attracted
scholars of various domains, including administrative science. With such an
interest, the Japanese Association of Administrative Science hosted the Special
Workshop on Boundary Crossing in January 2019 at Nagoya University.
Presentations at the workshop were sublimated into articles contained in
this special issue of the Japanese Journal of Administrative Science. They all
approach the nature of boundary crossing from original perspectives. As an
introduction to the special issue, this article provides an overview of boundary
crossing studies. First, we review the concept of “boundary” in this
research domain as well as the types of boundary crossing and associated
learning mechanisms. Second, we describe what boundary crossing brings to
individuals and organizations. Third, we present the aim of this special issue
and the outlines of the respective articles. Finally, implications for future research
are provided.
