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Becoming Ever Better Together?

From Scholarly Collaboration to Strategic Cooperation in Higher Education

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The 21st century has been proclaimed as the age of alliances – both for businesses and non-profit-making organisations (cf. Austin, 2000a). Thus it is arguable that the very existence of organisations in their entirety is dependent on the extent to which they are willing and able to cooperate with other organisations (ibid. pp. 1–17). These claims notwithstanding, sometimes inter-organisational collaborations are entered only with hesitation, because they are at the risk of not running smoothly and thus belie expectations conceived in connection with their establishment (e.g. Jowett & Dyer, 2012).

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    Jürgen Deeg

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    James Williams

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Deeg, J. (2016). Becoming Ever Better Together?. In: Pritchard, R.M.O., Pausits, A., Williams, J. (eds) Positioning Higher Education Institutions. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-660-6_11

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