ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a framework based on a set of emerging, fundamental patterns of collaboration. It derives and defines the fundamental patterns of collaboration. The chapter will show how these patterns can be used to link detailed interventions in collaboration to high-level collaborative processes. It also offers an overview of subpatterns that are instantiations of each pattern and the constructs that are measured by researchers during the study of these subpatterns. Next, the chapter describes the research approach to identify subpatterns and metrics. The reduction pattern of collaboration deals with moving from having many concepts to a focus on fewer concepts that a group deems worthy of further attention. Without constructs and measures to these subpatterns, it is virtually impossible for logical positivists to conduct empirical theoretical work that meaningfully explains and predicts outcomes for different collaboration patterns and contexts.
