“…In this paper, we use the case of a European Union expert group deliberating about the regulation of sustainable finance to show how three types of boundary work -arranging, shuffling and bridging -helped balance deliberative tensions between the search for inclusiveness, authenticity, and consequentiality. Although the deliberative capacity concept has proved useful for studying multi-stakeholders initiatives (Pek, Mena, & Lyons, 2023) and conflicting dynamics within deliberative processes (Beccarini, Beunza, Ferraro, & Hoepner, 2023;Castelló & Lopez-Berzosa, 2023), our analysis advances this prior research by investigating the role that deliberative boundary work played when dealing with such tensions. In so doing, we respond to the call of deliberative scholars for 'opening the black box' of deliberations as they happened (Bächtiger & Parkinson, 2019), while enriching boundary work studies (Langley et al, 2019).…”