Explaining Coordination s Role In Collaboration In examining the aspects of successful collaboration scholars often focus on the subject of cooperation. But coordination is just as important according to Ranjay Gulati Franz Wohlgezogen and Pavel Zhelyazkov. They discuss the role of both in a forthcoming issue of The Academy of Management Annals. Read The Two Facets of Collaboration Cooperation and Coordination in Strategic Alliances.
Enabling Venture Funding In Brazil In the spring of the Brazilian government s Agency for Innovation unveiled a plan to help promising high tech entrepreneurs gain access to venture Heavy Construction Contractors Email List capital. Ann Leamon and Josh Lerner explore the project in a new working paper Creating a Venture Ecosystem in Brazil FINEP s INOVAR Project noting that Brazil now leads Latin America in private equity funding by a long shot. —The Two Facets of Collaboration Cooperation and Coordination in Strategic Alliances AUTHORS Ranjay Gulati Franz Wohlgezogen and Pavel Zhelyazkov PUBLICATION The Academy of Management Annals forthcoming ABSTRACT This paper unpacks two underspecified facets of collaboration cooperation and coordination.
Prior research has emphasized cooperation and specifically the partners commitment and alignment of interests as the key determinant of collaborative success. Scholars have paid less attention to the critical role of coordination the effective alignment and adjustment of the partners actions. To redress this imbalance we conceptually disentangle cooperation and coordination in the context of inter organizational collaboration and examine how the two phenomena play out in the partner selection design and post formation stages of an alliance s life cycle.