Person

Star, Susan Leigh, and James R. Griesemer

Science studies scholars of boundary objects—artifacts that coordinate work across communities with different stakes.

Why this matters

Boundary objects explain how serious systems keep partial alignment without full shared meaning.

Works

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Institutional Ecology, 'Translations' and Boundary Objects.

Star, Susan Leigh, and James R. Griesemer. "Institutional Ecology, 'Translations' and Boundary Objects." *Social Studies of Science* 25, no. 3 (1985): 393–438.

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