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Excerpt from An Investigation Into the Managerial Roles and Career Paths of Gatekeepers and Project Supervisors in a Major R and D Facility Given this burden in communicating across differentiated organizational boundaries, how can project groups be effectively linked to external infor mation areas? One way is through the role of project gatekeeper; that is, certain project members who are strongly connected to outside information domains but who are also capable of translating technical developments and ideas across contrasting coding schemes (allen and Cohen, Through these key members, external information can be channelled into project groups by means of a two-step communication process (coleman, Katz, and Menzel, First, gatekeepers gather and understand outside information, and subsequently they translate it into terms that are more meaningful to their locally con strained colleagues. Gatekeepers, as a result, perform an extremely valuable function, for they may be the principal means by which external ideas and information can be effectively transferred into rgd project groups. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.