Excerpt from Beyond the Boundary: Managing External Relationships in New Product Teams Internal group processes are complemented by external processes, or interaction with the environment that surrounds the group (alderfer, 1976 Cummings, A study by Gladstein (1984) showed that in ongoing organizational sales teams members focused on two major set of activities intragroup processes and boundary processes. Rather than the traditional task and maintenance activities. These external or boundary spanning processes may take the form of procuring resources, working out interdependencies, or transferring group output to others (alderfer, 1976; Quinn Mueller. 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.