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Assessing Collaboration Networks in Educational Research: A Co-Authorship-Based Social Network Analysis Approach.

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In this article, the authors analyze collaboration networks and their patterns among higher education institutions (HEIs) in Chile and the Latin American region and provide evidence that there is a low collaboration rate within-country as well cross-country among HEIs in Latin America.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze collaboration networks and their patterns among higher education institutions (HEIs) in Chile and the Latin American region. This will provide evidence to educational managements in order to properly allocate their efforts to improve collaboration. Design/methodology/approach – This quantitative study examines collaboration using a social network analysis (SNA) approach. The main source used to quantify collaboration is co-authorship of scholarly publications retrieved from the Web of Science scientific search engine. Findings – The paper provides evidence that there is a low collaboration rate within-country as well cross-country among HEIs in Latin America. The collaboration network in Chile is highly dependent on two institutions; Pontificia Universidad Catolica and Universidad de Chile. These institutions are considered leaders of opinion and knowledge facilitators. The density of the whole network is relatively low; only 5 percent of the potential con...

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Interorganizational Collaboration and the Locus of Innovation: Networks of Learning in Biotechnology.

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Social Capital and Value Creation: The Role of Intrafirm Networks

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What is research collaboration

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors distinguish between collaboration at different levels and show that inter-institutional and international collaboration need not necessarily involve inter-individual collaboration, and argue for a more symmetrical approach in comparing the costs of collaboration with the undoubted benefits when considering policies towards research collaboration.
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Stages of Small-Group Development Revisited

TL;DR: The authors examined published research on small-group development done in the last ten years that would constitute an empirical test of Tuckman's (1965) hypothesis that groups go through the stages of "forming," "storming," "norming," and "performing".

Stages of small-group development revisited.

TL;DR: This paper examined published research on small-group development done in the last ten years that would constitute an empirical test of Tuckman's (1965) hypothesis that groups go through the stages of "forming," "storming," "norming," and "performing".
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