Crossing Boundaries for Collaboration by Perz Stephen G.;

Author:Perz, Stephen G.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Analytics of Collaborative Structures

across Boundaries

Scale, structure, functions, modes, and boundaries thus constitute elements of a framework for thinking about the design of collaborative structures when crossing boundaries. I now turn to specific cases of collaborative structures with illustrations to visually evaluate the strategies and opportunities as well as the risks and perils in various designs. While some cases are stylized, I also offer the projects outlined in Chapter 2 as concrete examples to elucidate the positive and negative consequences of specific collaborative structures when crossing boundaries.

For both hierarchies and networks, visualization in graphical form has long been a useful practice to communicate about structures. The same might also be said for identification of advantages and potential problems in the design of collaborative structures. I therefore employ a series of figures that illustrate collaborative structures, not only to support analytic discussion of their advantages and disadvantages, but also to concretely point out specific adjustments that could be made in particular designs to mitigate certain problems.

Graph theory provided a means of illustrating structures of relationships (e.g., Harary 1969), as applied in analysis of networks (e.g., Scott 2000) and organizations (e.g., Burton, et al. 2011). Illustrations of such structures typically render relationships using lines (“edges”) that connect agents (“nodes”) depicted as dots or circles or boxes. Such relational graphs in turn informed the “sociograms” of social network analysis, which visualize individuals and organizations as points and relationships as lines (Scott 2000). In this chapter, I adopt a version of this symbology to illustrate collaborators and orga-

nizations as labeled boxes and collaborative relationships as lines.

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