Establishing and keeping inter-organisational collaboration. Some lessons learned

Abstract

From a practical point of view, this work focuses on pointing out and providing solutions to some of the most common problems that challenge the establishment and keeping of collaborative inter-organisational practices. These problems are grouped into four main intangible factors: trust, equity, coherence and visibility. Due to the changing nature of these four factors, the concept of dynamic interactions is introduced and illustrated. Dynamic interactions among these four intangible factors make more difficult the monitoring and management of possible problems. Then, some solutions to these problems derived from experience are provided. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.