Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how project partners respond to contractually agreed collaboration in … organizations. Such an interpretative perspective helps to better understand practices of collaboration in complex mega projects … daily work life, the authors chose an in‐depth single case study. Practices of collaboration have been studied during a one …

construction projects. The examples are mainly drawn from countries where collaboration is common and culturally acceptable … implications – The study provides deep insights about the nature of collaboration. It may have wider applicability. Social …

Purpose – Despite good project front-end planning, projects typically need continuous coordination among the … participants concerning scope of work, pace, and timing during the execution phase to be accomplished without delays. Coordination … can be formal or informal. Research shows that informal coordination of residual and unforeseen interdependencies enhances …

; innovation, knowledge transfer and organisational learning can be enabled where there is coordination, cohesion, commitment … as a result of the disconnection between the team that closes the PFI deal and the team that implements the contract …