A Temporal Perspective on Boundary Spanning: Engagement Dynamics and Implications for Knowledge Transfer

The authors thank Linus Dahlander, Vivianna Fang He, Dries Faems, Jonas Friedrich, Keld Laursen, Qinli Lu, Johannes Meuer, Hans-Gerd Ridder, David Rogosa, Sanne Smith, Sjir Uitdewillingen, Amanda Williams, and Tammo Zobel, as well as participants at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings 2019 and 2020 Meetings, the World Open Innovation Conference 2019, and research seminars at ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich, and the University of St. Gallen, for their valuable comments. A.-K. Zobel and L. Falcke are grateful to the Group for Sustainability and Technology at ETH Zurich that has been their intellectual home for part of the research process. S. D. Comello is grateful to the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford University’s Precourt Institute from Energy that together served as his intellectual neighborhood for almost the entire research process.