More or Less than Give and Take : Manifested Attitudes to Inter-Partner Learning in Collaboration

Within the general context of the theory of collaborative advantage, this article focuses on attitudes to inter-partner learning in both private and public sector settings. Basic attitudes to learning - quot;selfishquot;, quot;sharingquot; and quot;sidelinedquot; - are identified and through a qualitative analysis of data collected during collaboration programmes, these are unpacked to reveal subtle and varied manifestations. The resulting framework suggests that in practice many attitudes have an element of all of the basic attitudes