Dual organization and legitimate peripheral participation

2018-04-23

• Clear boundaries for participation

  • Recognized as a legitimate member.
    • legitimate participation

• Share information about the activities of the authorized internal organization with the rest of the organization

  • Understand what kind of activities they are engaged in.
    • Peripheral Participation

When I wrote about the Duplex organization before, I thought the outer boundaries were in and out. - It was an image of the open source community user group.

• But the outer boundary being free to come and go is not a MUST requirement for a dual organization

• For example, in the case of [Cybozu

  • Within the group of employees, there is a subgroup called the general manager.
  • Of course there is a selection process to get into the general manager's group, but there is also a selection process to get into the group of employees.
    • I wrote this on 2018-04-23, but then I started doing in-house recruitment of directors.
  • Information that can be disclosed in discussions at general managers' meetings is made available to employees.

• According to the idea of legitimate peripheral participation, there should be explicit participation rituals (= legitimization of affiliation) at the outer boundaries as well

• Duplex organization and Legitimate Peripheral Participation

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