Collaboration theory consists of analytical frameworks for understanding the collaborative process and its outcomes derived through various forms of research and reflection.
Although there is currently no widely accepted general theory of collaboration, there are many theoretical approaches to collaborative practice that have been developed within a wide variety of disciplines.
Collaboration Theories
- General
- Mark Elliott's PhD dissertation includes a generalised framework for collaboration, as well as collective activity in general: http://mark-elliott.net/view/Dissertation/CollaborationDissertation
- Education
- IT
- The Participatory Challenge, by Trebor Scholz: an essay 'about participation in online collaborations and the potentials of extreme sharing networks in the unregulated commons.'
- Useful list of Collaborative Software and Experts from Cognexus.org -- http://www.cognexus.org/id27.htm
- Science
- Management
Reviews of books on Collaboration
Democracy is Possible, Here’s How People Harness their Collective Wisdom and Power to Construct the Future in Co-Laboratories of Democracy -- http://danshaw.com/democracy.html
Locating Consensus for Democracy: A Ten-Year U.S. Experiment Public Interest Polling -- http://danshaw.com/polling.html
Model of Social Transformation That Actually Explains How & Why a Few Social Movements Succeed While Most Fail: Research into the nature of events involving two forces... -- http://danshaw.com/9-stage-model.php