Information sharing in public-private relationships: the role of boundary objects in contracts
研究了公私合作中合同如何作为边界对象影响信息共享，基于制药公司与公共医疗组织的案例，发现合同虽能作为共同参考点，但不同边界对象的信息处理与交换能力存在差异。
The management of public-private relationships to deliver vital public products and services is crucial to ensure high performance. While extant public management studies have started to position contracts as vital in managing information exchange, these studies paid limited attention to unpack the elements within a contract, and their role and capacity, to support (or hinder) information sharing. Drawing on primary and secondary datasets, we examine three relationships between a pharmaceutical company and public healthcare organizations. While findings reveal that contracts can function as a common reference point, individual boundary objects differ both in their information processing and exchange capacities.