Collaborative Interaction: Review of Communication Scholarship and a Research Agenda

Interorganizational Collaboration Explored Through the Bona Fide Network Perspective

“…As such, the perspective emphasizes that network boundaries are fuzzy, membership is dynamic, and networks are restructured over time. These boundaries depart from both the bona fide collaborating group perspective's focus on a negotiated temporary system and from previous network research on named networks (see Lewis, 2006;Miller, Scott, Stage, & Birkholt, 1995;Provan & Kenis, 2008).…”

Economic Sectors as Discursive Resources for Civil Society Collaboration

“…From this perspective communication is not just the exchange of messages and information within a pre-existing collaborative structure; it is the fundamental organizing process that calls organizational forms into being and sustains their existence (Kuhn & Ashcraft, 2003). Lewis (2006) provided one of the most recent and extensive review of previous research related to communication and collaboration. She offered a theoretical model of collaboration that synthesizes previous research and highlights the central issues of collaborative interaction across contexts.…”

Participative Democracy and Voice: Rethinking Community Collaboration Beyond Neutral Structures

“…Structurally interorganizational collaboration involves stakeholders from multiple organizations or groups working toward solving a particular problem or advancing a particular vision (Gray, 1989;Keyton, Ford, & Smith, 2008;Stohl &Walker, 2002). Collaboration is not only a particular interorganizational structure but is also fundamentally discursive and communicative, foregrounding processes that are laden with egalitarian values such as horizontal hierarchy and shared decision-making (Gray, 1989;Keyton et al, 2008;Lewis, 2006). Indeed, early research emphasized egalitarian processes (Hardy, Lawrence, & Grant, 2005;Heath & Sias, 1999;Lewis, 2006); constructive conflict (Daniels & Walker, 2001;Heath, 2007); an overall cooperative ethos within civic decision-making environments (Hardy et al, 2005); and transparency, such as openly sharing agendas and turf (Huxham & Vangen, 2005;Leach, 2006;Moseley, 2001).…”

“…Collaboration is not only a particular interorganizational structure but is also fundamentally discursive and communicative, foregrounding processes that are laden with egalitarian values such as horizontal hierarchy and shared decision-making (Gray, 1989;Keyton et al, 2008;Lewis, 2006). Indeed, early research emphasized egalitarian processes (Hardy, Lawrence, & Grant, 2005;Heath & Sias, 1999;Lewis, 2006); constructive conflict (Daniels & Walker, 2001;Heath, 2007); an overall cooperative ethos within civic decision-making environments (Hardy et al, 2005); and transparency, such as openly sharing agendas and turf (Huxham & Vangen, 2005;Leach, 2006;Moseley, 2001). These studies have done an excellent job of articulating the organizational consequences of the absence or presence of particular democratic processes, such as the deterioration of collaborative partnerships (Bernard, 2010).…”