Creating a Culture of Collaboration

Collaboration is often viewed as a one-time or project-oriented activity. An increasing challenge is to help organizations incorporate collaborative values and practices in their everyday ways of working. In Creating a Culture of Collaboration, an international group of practitioners and researchers from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, and the United States provide proven approaches to creating a culture of collaboration within and among groups, organizations, communities, and societies.

Collaboration is often viewed as a one-time or project-oriented activity. An increasing challenge is to help organizations incorporate collaborative values and practices in their everyday ways of working. In Creating a Culture of Collaboration, an international group of practitioners and researchers-from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, and the United States-provide proven approaches to creating a culture of collaboration within and among groups, organizations, communities, and societies.

Preface xxiiiSandy Schuman1 Five Transformational Leaders Discuss What They've Learned 1Sam KanerPart One: The Bases of Collaboration2 Renewing Social Capital: The Role of Civil Dialogue 41James M. Campbell3 The Development of Cross-Sector Collaborations in a Social Context of Low Trust 55Mladen Koljatic, Mónica Silva, Eduardo Valenzuela4 Exploring the Dynamics of Collaboration in Interorganizational Settings 69Ignacio J. Martinez-Moyano5 Equity, Diversity, and Interdependence: A New Driver for Societal Transformation 87Michael Murray, Brendan Murtagh6 What Keeps It Together: Collaborative Tensility in Interorganizational Learning 105Hilary Bradbury, Darren Good, Linda Robson7 Make-or-Break Roles in Collaboration Leadership 129Mirja P. HansonPart Two: Approaches to Collaboration8 Sense Making and the Problems of Learning from Experience: Barriers and Requirements for Creating Cultures of Collaboration 151Gervase R. Bushe9 Metaphors at Work: Building Multiagency Collaboration Through a Five-Stage Process 173Carol Sherriff, Simon Wilson10 Utilizing Uncertainty 193Kim Sander Wright11 Sustainable Cooperative Processes in Organizations 211Dale Hunter12 Is Your Organization an Obstacle Course or a Relay Team? A Meaning-Centered Approach to Creating a Collaborative Culture 229Paul T. P. Wong13 Practical Dialogue: Emergent Approaches for Effective Collaboration 257Rosa Zubizarreta14 Using the Facilitative Leader Approach to Create an Organizational Culture of Collaboration 281Roger Schwarz15 Use of Self in Creating a Culture of Collaboration 304Ante Glavas, Claudy Jules, Ellen Van OostenPart Three: Collaboration in Action16 Collaboration for Social Change: A Theory and a Case Study 322Cynthia Silva Parker, Linda N. Guinee, J. Courtney Bourns, Jennifer Fischer-Mueller, Marianne Hughes, Andria Winther17 Theory in Action: Building Collaboration in a County Public Agency 345Jamie O. Harris, David Straus18 Leadership for the Common Good 367John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby19 Using Deliberative Democracy to Facilitate a Local Culture of Collaboration: The Penn's Landing Project 399William J. Ball20 Avoiding Ghettos of Like-Minded People: Random Selection and Organizational Collaboration 419Lyn Carson21 Involving Multiple Stakeholders in Large-Scale Collaborative Projects 435Tasos Sioukas, Marilyn SweetAppendix: Collaborative Values, Principles, and Beliefs 449Key Concepts 469Index 479