عنوان

Managing to collaborate

(Number (ISBN

9786610289967

Country Code

IR

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ebook3898

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Country of publication

IR

Title Proper

Managing to collaborate

General Material Designation

[Electronic Resource]

Other Title Information

:the theory and practice of collaborative advantage

First Statement of Responsibility

/ Chris Huxham and Siv Vangen

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 271 pages

Other Physical Details

: illustrations ; 24 cm

Text of Note

Title from e-book title screen (viewed October 16, 2007).

Text of Note

GMD: electronic resource.

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e

Text of Note

Includes bibliography (pages258-267) and index.

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Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Collaborative Advantage -- Collaborative advantage: What? Why? How? and Why Not? -- What? -- Why? -- How? -- Why not? -- Cases of collaboration -- The alliance for social inclusion -- The airline alliance -- The automotive international joint venture -- The Childcare community initiative -- The engineering industry supply chain outsourcing partnership -- The environmental capacity building programme -- The health care co-operative -- The health promotion partnership -- The one-stop shop for special education and services -- The pharmaceutical co-marketing alliance -- The property development alliance -- The small business network -- The principles of the theory of collaborative advantage -- Practising collaboration understanding: using descriptive theory -- Practising collaboration understanding: from description to prescription -- Theory structure -- Theory purpose -- What of the ten tips? -- Action researching collaboration -- Doing research using action research: some principles -- Case study: researching leadership in collaboration -- Variations on a theme -- Moving on -- Themes in Collaboration Practice -- Grappling with advantage and inertia -- We must have common aims but we cannot agree on them -- Sharing power is important but people behave as it it's all in the purse strings -- Trust is necessary for successful collaboration but we are suspicious of each other -- We are partnership-fatigued and tired of being pulled in all directions -- Everything keeps changing -- Leadership is not always in the hands of members -- Leadership activities continually meet with dilemmas and difficulties -- Realizing collaborative advantage -- Don't work collaboratively unless you have to -- Managing aims -- An entanglement of aims, collaborative, organizational and individual -- The external dimension: outsiders' aims -- How genuine are they? -- A confusion of routes to aim achievement -- How aims as well as what aims: distinguishing process and substance -- How explicit are they? -- Disentangling conceptually -- A blurring of aims -- Combinations, impossibilities and multiple perspectives -- Metamorphosis: aims changing, emerging, developing -- Aims in collaboration: a tangled web -- On relevance and value -- Disentangling in practice: from categorization to a framework for managing aims -- Negotiating purpose -- Setting the scene: the phenomenon of negotiating purpose -- Characterizing episodes in negotiating joint purpose -- Wider implications for collaborations -- Using the episodes framework -- Managing aims in practice -- Membership structures and dynamics -- Ambiguity and complexity in collaborative structures -- The dynamics of collaboration -- Implications -- Understanding structural complexity in practice -- Coping with trust -- The cyclical aspect of trust building -- Trust in the practice of collaboration -- The cyclical trust building process in practice -- Using power -- In collaboration, what is power for? -- Power at the macro level: sources and dynamics -- Power at the micro level: points of power -- Power interfaces outside in and inside out -- Using power in practice -- Issues of identity -- The identity formation melee: cycles, components and complexities -- Components of identities -- Complexities in the cycles -- Engaging with the melee in practice -- The Meaning of leadership -- Leadership media -- Leadership activities -- Managing leadership media -- Doing Leadership -- Leadership activities from the spirit of collaboration ... -- Leadership activities ... towards collaborative thuggery -- The essence of leadership enactment for collaborative advantage -- Managing leadership activities -- Collaboration in Practice -- Using the theory: managing tensions in collaboration practice -- Methodology: discursive development of tensions -- Tension examples -- Emerging theoretical issues -- Concluding comments: from conflation in epistemology to practice-oriented theory -- Managing tensions in practice -- Managing to collaborate - and getting a buzz from it -- Reviewing the threads -- Reviewing the themes -- Getting hands dirty and getting the buzz.

Variant Title

CRKN - Taylor & Francis ebooks

Strategic alliances (Business)

Partnership.

Business networks.

Electronic books.--local

Number

Class number

Huxham, Chris

Vangen, Si� 1964

MyiLibrary

Taylor & Francis

Country

ایران

Call Number

658.044

Date and Hour of Consultation and Access

0203010167.pdf

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0

old catalog

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