Collaborating to Know?: Interorganizational Engagement and Learning

We approached the considerable body of literature on learning in collaborative situations in order to explore the possibility of pulling the separate strands into a broad conceptual framework which might offer new insights. The literature focus in the framework was deliberately upon the interorganizational field, although we do touch upon some more general issues related to organizational learning and knowledge where these help to elucidate key questions. Our aim in doing so was to explore whether such a framework might have: utility as a guide for empirical work; some validity in its own right; or a combination of these possibilities...