ABSTRACT
This chapter provides certain principles and strategies for the successful management of collaboration in scholarly research. It analyzes the intellectual, emotional, and structural factors involved in choice of a collaborative partner, and the ways in which the collaborative task and relationship can be handled and managed towards a successful outcome. The choice of a collaborative partner also involves the assessment of, and fit between, personal characteristics of both self and potential collaborator. Along with assessment of the priority placed upon work in general, partners must consider the extent of their commitments to projects other than the collaborative venture. Certain aspects of work pace and cycle are pertinent primarily for collaborative partners physically working together, while other aspects are pertinent for long-distance collaboration as well. In cross-sex collaborative relationships, the partners may tend to relate, and to assign tasks, not according to egalitarian collegial roles, but according to traditional expectations of the sex roles.
