Engineering interaction: Structural change, locus of identification, and the formation and maintenance of cross‐unit ties

Cross‐unit ties–relationships that facilitate discretionary information sharing between individuals from different business units–offer a range of organizational benefits. Scholars argue that organizations can promote cross‐unit ties by: (a) formally bringing together individuals from different business units into structural links (e.g., cross‐unit strategic committees) to encourage the formation of new cross unit ties and, (b) transferring...