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Valuing Ordered and Organic Collaboration

People, Place, Process and Purpose

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Collaborating in Healthcare

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As I started my conversation with the vast literature on collaboration, I was reminded of the fable of the blind men describing an elephant where each man described characteristics of a different part without an overall view of the whole: thus an elephant was deemed to be like a rope (tail), fan (ear), tree trunk (leg), spear (tusk) and wall (stomach).

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  1. Research Fellow, Department of Rural Health, The University of Newcastle, Australia

    Anne Croker PhD

  2. Adjunct Research Fellow, The Education For Practice Institute, Charles Sturt University, Australia

    Anne Croker PhD

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    Franziska Trede

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Croker, A. (2016). Valuing Ordered and Organic Collaboration. In: Croker, A., Higgs, J., Trede, F. (eds) Collaborating in Healthcare. Practice, Education, Work and Society. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-806-8_5

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