Collaborating : Finding Common Ground for Multiparty Problems (Jossey-Bass Management Series)

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Summary: The best study of interorganizational collaboration.
Review: As the author points out, collaboration is an emerging and eminently positive method for addressing problems that impact more than one group. In today's ever-increasingly complex world, alternatives to current forms of problem solving are necessary (although collaboration is certainly not new). Gray's study has been cited by other, following authors; it must be considered as a seminal source of investigation into what may emerge as one of the best means of solving problems facing organizations of all sorts. The book is very readable, indicates a thorough knowledge of the field (even though it was written a decade ago), and must be considered a vital work in the field.