“…Openness is about boundaries and boundary work, and these, according to many, reflect the essence of organizing and structuring organizational life (e.g., Langley et al, 2019;Paulsen and Hernes, 2003;Santos and Eisenhardt, 2005). The organizational literature on boundaries is increasingly moving away from the entitative conception of boundaries as given and stable fixed demarcations of groups and organizations as bounded entities in favor of a processual view that conceives boundaries as continuously socially constructed and interpreted, emergent and dynamic, inherently tension-laden, and centrally constitutive of the ongoing process of organizing (Brorström and Diedrich, 2022;Glimmerveen et al, 2020;Lamont and Molnár, 2002;Langley et al, 2019;Quick and Feldman, 2014;Zietsma and Lawrence, 2010). In the processual view, boundaries can both connect and divide (Quick and Feldman, 2014) and are subject to human agency through boundary work, the "purposeful individual and collective effort to influence boundaries (…); demarcations; and distinctions affecting groups, occupations, and organizations" (Langley et al, 2019, p. 704).…”