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Title: Managing Research Collaborations


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Managing Research Collaborations
  • Sharon F. Matusik
  • University of Colorado-Boulder
  • OMT/ODC/MOC Doctoral Student Consortium
  • Academy of Management Annual Meetings
  • August 2006

2
What can research collaborations do?
  • Provide complementary knowledge bases and skills
    which can lead to higher quality output
  • Motivation and commitment to research voice
  • Mechanism for direct feedback
  • Positive interactions in what can be a solitary
    career

Adapted from Frost Taylor. 1996. Working
collaboratively in Rhythms of Academic Life
3
To persist, should yield
  • Research achievement valued by involved parties
  • Ideally see outcome as better than what could be
    individually achieved
  • Enjoyable interpersonal interactions

Adapted from Frost Taylor. 1996. Working
collaboratively in Rhythms of Academic Life
4
How tos
  • Selecting collaborators
  • Managing collaborations
  • Approaching a senior scholar to collaborate with
    you

5
Selecting collaborators
  • Balance working with your chair and other senior
    faculty
  • Positives
  • Learning
  • Quality reviewers
  • Negatives
  • Need to establish your own academic identity
  • Attribution of quality may go to well-known
    scholar rather than you
  • Complementary skills are important, but so are
  • Complementary priorities, time lines
  • Institutions have different value on research
  • Career stage
  • Complementary work styles and world views
  • Methodological, theoretical orientations
  • Nature of interdependence (Sequential or pooled
    vs. reciprocal)

6
Selecting collaborators (cont.)
  • Is this someone who you like and who is
    stimulating to work with?
  • One of the best parts of this career is that you
    can choose who to work with
  • Process takes so long, and reward at end may not
    be perceived as enough so make sure the process
    is fulfilling
  • Someone to share the success with
  • Beer test
  • Develop unique and valuable skills, resources so
    others will approach you
  • Its easy to add a coauthor, but very difficult
    to remove one!

7
Managing the collaboration
  • Whos driving?
  • Discussions on order of authorship?
  • Who will write the first draft?
  • On-going vs. one time relationship
  • Its kind of like a marriageyou have to live
    with them (Barry Staw)
  • Jealousies, work habits, vulnerabilities, walk in
    other persons shoes, validate other
  • Someone to vent to
  • Have to be able to disagree with each other
  • Compromise and conflict are part of the process

8
Managing the collaboration (cont.)
  • Dealing with a bad situation
  • Get out early
  • Consider bringing in someone else to dilute the
    negative, (with full disclosure)
  • Try to avoid low potential situations in the
    first place
  • Think about where to go next
  • Consider outlining future project (s) before the
    current one ends

9
Approaching a senior scholar
  • Develop it as a win-win proposition
  • Idea is reasonably far along and well-developed
  • There is a valuable resource you bring to the
    table
  • Unique data source, methodological skills, etc
  • There is a clearly defined role for the senior
    scholar that fits with how s/he can add value
  • Develop a personal connection with that person

10
Resources
  • Frost, P and Taylor, S. 1996. Rhythms of
    Academic Life. Sage Thousand Oaks CA.
  • Frost and Taylor. Working collaboratively
  • Hinings and Greenwood. Working together
  • Dutton, Bartunek Gersick. Growing a personal,
    professional collaboration
  • Hunt, Ropo Eriksson. Three voices reflecting
    scholarly career journeys with international
    collaboration
  • Dutton, J. and Dukerich J. 2006. The relational
    foundation of research An underappreciated
    dimension of interesting research. AMJ. 49
    21-26.
  • Gersick, C., Bartunek, J. and Dutton, J. 2000.
    Learning from academia The importance of
    relationships in professional life. AMJ. 43
    1026-1044.

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putting these ideas into practice
  • Enjoy the break
  • Connections you make here may yield future
    research relationships
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