ABSTRACT
This chapter is a compilation of articles, put together to support and inform three groups of readers. The first group comprises academics and students with an interest in collaboration and issues pertinent to managing across organizational and cultural boundaries. The second involves practitioners and policy-makers who either plan to be or are already at the sharp end of collaborative activities. The third is the interested layperson who we feel will also gain immensely from reading and critiquing the articles contained in its pages. The chapter explores pertinent issues about collaboration, particularly from an organization behaviour/theory perspective. It intends to take a ‘broad brush’ and to stimulate thinking about collaboration, particularly in organizational settings. The chapter illustrates the political dimension of our interactions with others and the centrality of power to actions and decision-making.
