Resumen
This article focuses on the issue of challenges posed by globalization. Due to this reason firms are turning to collaborative technologies, with collaborative technologies often seen as the means by which such obstacles can be overcome. This article attempts to the myth of the boundaryless organization and argues against technologically deterministic approaches to organizational change. Certainly, there is a need to make boundaries more permeable through dismantling structures, but the need to form and reform boundaries that enable globalization was identified. Organizations should not set about the abolition of all intra-organizational boundaries myopically, as recognized by the more mature treatments of boundaryless organizations. Companies need to identify meaningful communities where knowledge sharing will be relevant to the participants. It is likely that different bases for boundary creation will emerge as an organization faces different contingencies in the future. There is a need for a continual process of experimentation, learning, and adaptation.