Collaboration is a type of interaction that is frequently used in for‐profit, nonprofit, and governmental organizations to reach a common shared goal, activity, or production. Generally, collaborations are temporary and negotiated sites of interaction. Identity, power, and strategy are common themes that arise through the evaluation of interaction among collaboration members. Two models for organizational and interorganizational collaboration exist; however, many other theories and models from specific contexts influence the study of collaboration in organizations. Collaboration can be represented as a structure, a process, or both. Future research in this area should address the scalability of findings from across research that addresses collaboration as a method of resolving conflict, or as a problem solving process, to collaborations that exist in organizational and interorganizational settings.