LOOKING OUTWARD: CHANGING ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH COLLABORATION

Autor: Catherine H. Augustine, Scott G. Rosevear
Rok vydání: 1998
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Zdroj: Community College Journal of Research and Practice. 22:419-433
ISSN: 1521-0413
1066-8926
DOI: 10.1080/1066892980220408
Popis: Community colleges have long relied on informal and unstructured collaborations as a tool for both survival and success. Now that businesses and other organizations are entering into very sophisticated networks and alliances, community colleges will need to move into more structured forms of collaborations. As the pace of competition increases as we move into a complex knowledge industry, community colleges need to find alternatives to traditional closed operations and limited collaborations. This article describes the need for more complex collaborative relationships with external constituents and examines how these collaborations will affect today's community colleges. Existing forms of collaboration will be described as traditional, centralized, unstructured modes of collaboration. Although these collaborations will continue to exist in the future, as the community college environment becomes more complex, more structured collaboration will become increasingly more common. Examples of some of the emerg...
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