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Understanding Collaborative Dynamics: A Critical Review And Inductive Investigation, Amydee Mackley Fawcett
Understanding Collaborative Dynamics: A Critical Review And Inductive Investigation, Amydee Mackley Fawcett
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Collaboration has been a topic of discussion for over 20 years. Managers are consistently calling for better collaboration and researchers have argued that managing tightly coupled relationships creates a co-mingling of complementary competencies that establishes distinctive advantages for firms. Even though there have been a few exemplar companies that have been capable of truly developing these complementary competencies, few companies truly understand the dynamics of a collaborative capability. This dissertation reviews the theoretical conceptualization and operationalization of tightly coupled relationships and through an interpretive analysis, begins to provide clarity to the following questions:
* Under what conditions are tightly coupled …