“…As such, this type of boundary spanning requires the least amount of investment of team members' time and attention, but is also the least likely to result in strong external relationships that have been shown to enable the exchange of rich knowledge and active support. As such, information scouting seems particularly useful for teams that can benefit from exchanging information with each other but have little need or incentive to coordinate work, such as between competing teams (Ivanovic et al, 2022;van den Adel et al, 2023).…”