ABSTRACT
So far this study has suggested that a shift in perspective-of viewing “The
Final Solution” not as a single, symbolically composite crime but as a contingent
constellation of locally polycratic, entropic, and punctuated events-might yield
new insights into the Nazi genocide. One such insight is in seeing the perpe-
trators’ need to negotiate their own competing interests long enough to create
temporary spaces of cooperation and exchange, an exigence that, as this study
argues, could be met by production of organizational texts to serve as boundary
objects (Oswick & Robertson, 2009; Star & Griesemer, 1989; Wilson & Herndl,
2007) for bridging their differences. In turn, the suggestion that everyday
documents can function in this manner requires the view that organizational
communications are not only instruments of message clarification for maximizing
productivity but are also means by which members constitute, construct, and
continually renegotiate their associations.
