Purpose – This article discuses the challenge of organizations achieving a collaborative advantage. Design/methodology/approach – Gives a brief synopsis of collaborative advantage. Findings – Leadership must involve being both gentle and tough at the same time – being prepared to nurture...

In today′s organizational environment, the ability to manage positive relationships between organizations, as well as those within organizations, is becoming increasingly important. Based on work being carried out in Glasgow, explores some of the issues involved in achieving collaborative...

Within the OR community, an increasing emphasis is being placed on developing approaches to tackle complex, 'messy' decision problems. The work described in this paper arose out of the premise that it would be desirable to integrate ideas from a number of different approaches of this type....

<title>Abstract</title> This article presents the Interpretive Clustering Approach to theory building from Research Oriented Action Research data as a means of creating theory to support the reflective practice of public managers. Tenets about the nature of theory suitable for supporting reflective practice...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the forces which militate against building capacity for research in business and management that satisfies the double‐hurdle criteria of academic rigour and relevance to practice, despite strong pressures in favour of it....

This article provides an overview of the theory of collaborative advantage. This is a practice-oriented theory concerned with enhancing practical understanding of the management isssues involved in joint working across organizations. Two contrasting concepts are central to it: collaborative...