Collaboration Life Cycle: Communicating Knowledge and Expertise for Getting In, Getting On, and Getting Ou | Posted on:2018-12-09 | Degree:Ph.D | Type:Dissertation | University:University of California, Santa Barbara | Candidate:Woo, DaJung | Full Text:PDF | GTID:1479390020955850 | Subject:Communication | Abstract/Summary: | | Gaining access to diverse knowledge and expertise is often the primary motivation for collaboration among different professionals and organizations. Extant approaches have focused on communication dynamics during collaborative processes---where participants have already accepted the value of one another's knowledge/expertise---and narrowly presumed transfer-integration as the successful outcome of collaboration. I argue that gaining a more complete understanding of collaboration requires investigating how collaborators' knowledge/expertise are differently implicated in their communicative efforts to break in, maintain, and leave collaboration. Further, conceptualizing collaboration as a cyclic process adds complexity to current theories by considering how collaborators' communication impacts and is impacted by their previous and/or future collaboration. I support these arguments by providing evidence from field studies of long-range regional planning, which involves collaboration among various organizations to bring diverse inputs for envisioning the distant future of their region. Through a set of three studies focusing on different components of a collaboration life cycle (the beginning, middle, and end), the findings reveal communicative dynamics that enable and constrain productive engagements among diverse organizations with distinct knowledge/expertise. | Keywords/Search Tags: | Collaboration, Diverse, Among, Organizations, Getting | | Related items |
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