Handbook of Collaborative Management Research

As editors of the Handbook of Collaborative Management Research, we began this project with a firm belief based on our experience that broader and deeper collaboration between managers of organizations and academic researchers could yield significant benefits for both parties. Managers would learn much more about how organizations function and new approaches to managing complex systems, thereby improving their individual and orga- nizational performance. Researchers would have access to organizations to discover and test new theories and hypotheses, thereby advancing knowledge and using it to enhance undergraduate, graduate, and executive education. What we didn’t realize at the time was how much we would learn about colla- borative management research from each other and from our colleagues who have con- tributed papers to this volume. As we began work on the editorial statement and guide- lines for the book, we quickly realized that we held different ideas of what collaborative management research entailed.