0 a metal tool with a shaped end, used to turn nuts and bolts -- 扳手，扳子
an open-ended/adjustable/ring spanner 可調整／活動／梅花扳手
In the inter-organizational information-sharing community, malicious participants, either agents or boundary spanners, are effectively removed from the system.
Recall that the inter-personal experiences of an organization's boundary spanners are internalized over time, representing norms, by the organization and manifest ultimately in the building of interorganizational trust.
The entity fact path of a fact ft denoted by t is a graph, where the nodes represent entities (agents or boundary spanners) that constitute ft's traversal during information sharing.
We do not want to throw any spanners into that particular wheel.
We need lubricants instead of spanners in the works, conciliation, not compulsion, and arbitration rather than legal enforcement.
No wonder there are scandals and gold-plated contracts and £300 spanners.
No doubt he could afford to throw a few planners into the works but not spanners.
The owner does not have to say that the deficiency is in five-inch spanners, and that nine have gone.
