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Results<br />
Table 14 shows how case Center clearly indicates the smallest amount of<br />
boundary <strong>activities</strong>. While the data set in case Center was the largest (25<br />
interviews), the number of boundary <strong>activities</strong> was the smallest of the three<br />
cases. Case Center demonstrated only 103 of the 606 quotes referring to<br />
boundary <strong>activities</strong>, averaging only as 4.1 quotes of boundary <strong>activities</strong><br />
mentioned per interview. The other two cases, Bureau <strong>and</strong> Chain, indicated<br />
a significantly higher amount of boundary activity. In Bureau, 137<br />
quotations referring to boundary <strong>activities</strong> were identified in 11 interviews,<br />
with 12.5 boundary <strong>activities</strong> mentioned on average in an interview. Case<br />
Chain manifested the largest amount of boundary <strong>activities</strong>, altogether 366<br />
quotes referring to boundary <strong>activities</strong>. The amount of boundary activity in<br />
Chain was also the largest in proportion to the number of interviews, 16.6<br />
quotes per interview.<br />
As described, each of the quotes referring to boundary <strong>activities</strong> was<br />
connected with one or two of the boundary activity types. In total, the<br />
identified 606 quotes represented 858 instances of boundary activity types.<br />
Table 14 includes case-specific counts of these instances of boundary<br />
activity types. The average number of associated boundary activity types<br />
per one quotation of boundary activity was also calculated <strong>for</strong> each case.<br />
The results of this calculation indicated a subtle trend, where case Center<br />
again had the lowest result <strong>and</strong> case Chain the highest result. In Center,<br />
each quote was connected with 1.3 boundary activity types, while in Bureau<br />
the corresponding figure was 1.4, <strong>and</strong> in Chain 1.5. This indicates that in<br />
Chain, the boundary <strong>activities</strong> more often had several intentions behind<br />
them. For example, in<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>activities</strong> in Chain were frequently also about<br />
enclosing: careful measures were taken to pave the way <strong>for</strong> the changes by<br />
providing in<strong>for</strong>mation about them, simultaneously ensuring that<br />
confidential plans about the personnel effects were not revealed too early.<br />
Whereas the overall amount of boundary activity seemed to differ<br />
significantly across the cases, <strong>activities</strong> representing all four categories of<br />
boundary <strong>activities</strong> were found in all three cases. The distribution of<br />
boundary <strong>activities</strong> in terms of the categories was very similar across the<br />
three cases. Table 14 shows a clear trend in the distribution, where in all<br />
three cases around 30% of the boundary <strong>activities</strong> is about defining <strong>and</strong><br />
shaping the boundary (ranging from 27 to 31%), a bit more than 20% is<br />
about crossing the boundary inwards (22–25%), around 40% is about<br />
crossing the boundary outwards (40–43%), <strong>and</strong> less than 10% is about<br />
blocking the boundary from inward <strong>and</strong> outward flows (4–8%).<br />
While there seems to be a visible trend in the categorization of the<br />
boundary <strong>activities</strong> based on their direction, many differences were<br />
identified in the distribution of the boundary <strong>activities</strong> within the four<br />
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