Collaborative Tensions: Practitioners' Experiences of Interorganizational Relationships

Lewis, Laurie K.; Isbell, Matthew G.; Koschmann, Matt

doi:10.1080/03637751.2010.523605

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“…Similarly, Higgs and Rowland () observe that message‐framing behaviors and evidence of supportiveness by organization leaders are necessary to promote the inter‐organizational teams expected to collaborate but who hesitated to do so. During the collaboration process, team performance is not satisfactory when it relates to coalitions, informal status displays, respect by representatives for each other's goals and processes, holding others accountable for failure to meet deadlines or quality expectations, or obfuscation during decision making (Lewis, Isbell, & Koschmann, ).…”

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Communication Behaviors to Implement Innovations: How Do AEC Teams Communicate in IPD Projects?

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Project Management Journal

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Implementing any innovation successfully is a challenge. In addition to commonly reported climate and values‐fit constructs, this study proposes that communication behaviors (i.e., monitoring, challenging, managing, and negotiating) are also vital for innovation implementation. Via an in‐depth literature review, the study first defines these metrics. Second, a content analysis of an integrated project delivery (IPD) case study report enables the study to explore if these communication behaviors exist in inter‐organizational architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) project teams. Results provide four key communication metrics for innovation implementation, supported by evidence and examples that illustrate these metrics in AEC teams implementing IPD as an innovation.

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Communication Behaviors to Implement Innovations: How Do AEC Teams Communicate in IPD Projects?

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Mollaoglu

Miller

et al. 2015

Project Management Journal

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“…Given these challenges, the ability to constructively communicate is seen as a precondition for resolving many of these tensions (Jeffrey, 2003;Bukvova, 2010). Scholars of scientific collaboration, as well as those studying collaboration in closely related domains (Pearce and Littlejohn, 1997;Wenger, 2000;Lewis et al, 2010;van Oortmerssen et al, 2014) have pointed out that constructive communication can help to clarify roles and task requirements, increases trust and psychological safety, resolves disagreement and conflicts, and contributes to developing new frameworks for solving problems (Jeffrey, 2003;Stokols et al, 2008).…”

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Silence in Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration: Not Everything Said is Relevant, Not Everything Relevant is Said

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Solving publicly important issues asks for the development of sociotechnical approaches, which demands collaboration between researchers with different perspectives, values, and interests. In these complex interdisciplinary collaborations, the course of communication is of utmost importance, including the moments when people, consciously or not, keep silent. In 2012, an interdisciplinary group of water management engineers and scientists collaborated to explore how the university's separate water management research fields could fit better in today's socio-technical trends. Studying the interactional process revealed that during the collaboration many issues were not said by various parties at various times. Results show that, in particular, engineers and scientists stayed silent to secure group performance, to keep disagreements from surfacing, and manage conflicts of interest in the bargaining process. Although silence served various interactional functions, it also shaped the course of interaction in ways that were not intended, resulting in the development of a latent conflict. It is concluded that the concept of silence adds a relevant dimension to our understanding of interaction among engineers and scientists participating in interdisciplinary collaboration that is currently absent in existing literature on scientific collaboration.

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“…Collaboration is a hallmark of contemporary organizing, especially in the civil society sector where there is widespread recognition that the complexity and interdependence of many social issues necessitates some type of collaborative response among relevant stakeholders (Lewis, Isbell, & Koschmann, ; Selsky & Parker, ). Civil society collaboration encompasses a host of interorganizational relationships among governments, nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, private businesses, and/or local communities and citizens.…”

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The Communicative Accomplishment of Collaboration Failure

Koschmann

2016

J Commun

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This study develops a communicative model of collaboration failure to address one of the key challenges of collaboration theory and practice: the discrepancy between the promise of collaboration and the reality of persistent failure. A theoretical framework is developed based on notions of dialogue, discourse, and coorientation, which informs three key aspects of collaboration: knowledge production, shared identity, and collective agency. This theoretical framework is then combined with analytic themes from an empirical case study of a failed civil society collaboration. Themes of communication practice that constitute collaborative failure are detailed, while also contrasting these with alternative practices that can enable more successful collaboration. Further implications are discussed, specifically in terms of rethinking common collaboration dualisms of structure/process and talk/action.

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Collaborative Tensions: Practitioners' Experiences of Interorganizational Relationships

Cited by 90 publications

References 35 publications

Communication Behaviors to Implement Innovations: How Do AEC Teams Communicate in IPD Projects?

Communication Behaviors to Implement Innovations: How Do AEC Teams Communicate in IPD Projects?

Silence in Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration: Not Everything Said is Relevant, Not Everything Relevant is Said

The Communicative Accomplishment of Collaboration Failure

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