Collaboration: What Makes It Work, 2nd Edition: A Review of Research Literature on Factors Influencing Successful Collaboration

What makes the difference between your collaboration's failure or success? Collaboration: What Makes It Work, Second Edition answers this question with an up-to-date and in-depth review of collaboration research. This new edition also includes The Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory.

PAUL W. MATTESSICH, Ph.D., is director of Wilder Research Center, which dedicates itself to improving the lives of individuals, families, and communities through applied research. Mattessich has assisted local, national, and international organizations with strategic planning, organizational improvement, and evaluation. Mattessich has been involved in applied social research since 1973, and is the author or coauthor of more than two hundred publications and reports. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of Minnesota.

As a research assistant at Wilder Research, MARTA MURRAY-CLOSE conducted literature reviews and maintained literature databases for research studies. She is fluent in English, Spanish, and French and assisted the center with multilingual interviewing and international communications. Murray-Close holds a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from Smith College.

BARBARA R. MONSEY was a research associate at Wilder Research Center and now lives in Seattle, Washington, coordinating clinical research projects for the Center for Health Studies at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound. She has formal training in anthropology and a master's degree in public health education from the University of North Carolina.