In order to facilitate a better understanding among professionals involved in collaborative networks, a clarification of the base concepts of networking, coordination, cooperation, and collaboration is made. A taxonomy of the main organizational forms of collaborative networks is introduced and working definitions for those forms are proposed.
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(2008). Collaboration forms. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H. (eds) Collaborative Networks: Reference Modeling. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79426-6_6
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