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Collaborative Cultural Space: Disciplines for Inter-Organizational Collaborative Learning Behaviour

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In the present environment of rapid change, organizations collaborate in order to rapidly deploy resources, and the extant literature acknowledges that increased inter-organizational learning is a beneficial consequence of such collaboration (Chen, Paulraj and Lado 2004, Simchi-Levi, Kaminsky and Simchi-Levi 2003). Such collaborative learning strengthens the development of joint capabilities (Lane and Lubatkin 1998, Lui and Ngo 2005, Selnes and Sallis 2003), provides a constant stream of innovation (Hall and Adriani 1998) and ensures a greater balance of bargaining power (Hall and Adriani 1998).

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    Ashish Dwivedi (Lecturer in Information Sciences) & Tim Butcher (Lecturer in Operations and Project Management) (Lecturer in Information Sciences) &  (Lecturer in Operations and Project Management)

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Sun, P.Y.T., Childerhouse, P. (2009). Collaborative Cultural Space: Disciplines for Inter-Organizational Collaborative Learning Behaviour. In: Dwivedi, A., Butcher, T. (eds) Supply Chain Management and Knowledge Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234956_13

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