What is Cooperation

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Cooperation denotes the relationships between two or more organizations or parts thereof, which aim at fulfilling some shared goal, are based on written or oral (legal) agreements, and keep the partners legally independent. (Kethers, 2000) Learn more in: Investing Trust Relationships in a Healthcare Network

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The act of coming together by one or more actors to achieve a common objective. Learn more in: Securitization of the Arctic: A Need for a Regional Security Architecture

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people working together to achieve a common purpose. Learn more in: Resolving Wicked Problems through Collaboration

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Organizations that share common interests and resources to work toward a unified objective or goal for regional development. Learn more in: Innovative Management of Community Territories and Inter-Organizational Communication for Regional Development

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Cooperative groups work together on group projects in ways that do not necessarily result in high-quality interaction, and new products and knowledge. A typical cooperative strategy is to divide up the work among the members and stitch the various contributions together at the end of the project. Learn more in: Measuring Collaboration in Online Communication

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Group effort characterized by individuals in a group dividing the work so that each member of the group completes a portion of the project. Learn more in: Collaboration in Online Communications

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Action or process of working together with someone or another organization in order to do, or achieve, something. Learn more in: Social Capital and Innovation: A Theoretical Perspective

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The process through which people are open and put in practice ways of sharing data, information, and knowledge. This can include processes, privileged information regarding a territory, a person or groups of people. The goal is to share and work together, mostly to achieve a common goal. Learn more in: Knowledge Creation, Management, and Dissemination in Impact Communities

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Joint operation in the shared workspace. Learn more in: The 3C Collaboration Model

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Working apart in complementary activities but with some coordination and information exchange towards the achievement of compatible goals; it might involve some resources sharing. Learn more in: Concept of Collaboration

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Interaction and cooperation of public, private and non-governmental organizations. Learn more in: European Union as Environmental Governance System

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It involves interaction of both ideas and collaboration, but also a broader sense because it requires a collective commitment among those involved in a constant relationship with common goals. Learn more in: The Analysis and Balancing of Scientific Social Networks in Cancer Control

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Students are not alone in their learning process. The OUC’s virtual campus offers the possibility to cooperate with other students through teamwork, or with the professors or the different people involved in the university community. Learn more in: The Open University of Catalonia as a Virtual University

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The practice of individuals or entities working together with common goals, instead of working separately in competition, and in which the success of one is dependent and contingent upon the success of the other. Learn more in: Hybrid Meta-Heuristics Based System for Dynamic Scheduling

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The action or process of working together to the same end. Learn more in: SMEs in Nigeria: Exploring Coopetition

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The collaborative work performed through individual actions to achieve a common goal. Learn more in: Collaborative Scientific Writing Between Writing Art and Project Management

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The action or process of working together to the same end. Learn more in: The Role of Destination Management Organizations in Exploiting Global Opportunities of Tourism Destinations

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Is a relationship based on collaboration between individuals or organizations to achieve common goals, using more or less consensual methods. Learn more in: The Effect of R&D Cooperation on Organizational Innovation: An Empirical Study of Portuguese Enterprises

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Joint behavior of a group of similar but not necessarily homogeneous entities which interact through different forms of communication, whether implicit or explicit, so as to barter resources and information and carry out collective missions that are not usually feasible by a single entity, or wherein a team may attain better performance. Learn more in: Sharing Information Efficiently in Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems

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The process of sharing information, experiences or other resources by members of the collaborative network. The main facilitators of a cooperative relationship are the following ones: a systemic thinking, a shared vision and a proficient dialogue capability. Learn more in: Electronic Government: Challenges for Public Services Consumer Behaviour and Value Creation

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Working together with someone, another company, organization, or country to achieve something. Learn more in: Measuring Social Capital: The Case of the Technium Network in Wales

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The association of two or more universities to achieve common goals. Learn more in: Internationalization of Higher Education Institutions in North Cyprus

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Striving to achieve a shared goal. Learn more in: A Distributed Framework and Consensus Middle-Ware for Human Swarm Interaction

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Act of working together where each part recognizes the benefit of shared action and is willing to support collective efforts, provided its individual aims and autonomy are not sacrificed. Learn more in: Sustainability of E-Collaboration

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The action or process of working together to the same end. Learn more in: Embedding EPS Program in Multi-Party Cooperation at The Hague University of Applied Sciences

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Form of work where students work together to achieve common goals. Learn more in: Digital and Collaborative Work: Winning Couple?

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The general meaning of cooperation is ‘working together’, involving relations of mutual confidence and coordination at different levels among the actors. In local productive systems, different types of cooperation can be identified, including productive cooperation for the attainment of economies of scale and scope; improvement of quality and productivity; and innovative cooperation, which leads to the reduction of risks, costs, time and, especially, to interactive learning, increasing the potential for the creation of productive and innovative capabilities. Learn more in: Innovation in the Health System: Evidences from Brazilian Local Production and Innovation Systems

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The act in which a group of people or organizations share a common goal and work together to achieve it. Learn more in: Social Capital as a Factor of Success in Mexican Cooperatives: Case – Cooperativa “Las Chiquihuitecas” Producer of Grana Cochinilla

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Voluntarily choosing to share in or participate in an act or completion of a task. Learn more in: 2007 Leadership and Human Resources Training in Rwanda

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Exchanging information, altering activities, and sharing resources for mutual benefit and to achieve a common purpose. Cooperating requires greater organizational commitments and may involve formal agreements (Himmelman, 1997). Learn more in: Surveying Trust in Virtual Organizations

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Ad hoc or temporary programs embarked on by various countries in the West African sub-region for the mutual benefit of all; separateness of countries is recognized. Learn more in: Regional Integration in West Africa: Exploring the Option of Leveraging Workforce Diversity in the Academia and University System

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The action working together, with others, to achieve a common goal. Emphasis in this process is on the common goal and collective effort. Learn more in: Collaborative Learning as a Pedagogical Tool to Improve Students' Learning

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A non-structured process, volatile and affective in nature, which establishes itself among members of a relationship. Within the process, various agents with values, visions, or culture agree to work together and share resources with the aim of reaching a common objective. These types of activities are intangible, not easy to regulate and difficult to achieve without a joint effort that requires a high degree of interrelation. Collaborative behavior offers flexibility when problem solving, improves communication between members of the relationship, foments understanding between different cultures, and enables the development of good will when faced with problem-solving. Learn more in: Consequences and Strategic Implications of Networked Enterprise and Human Resources

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Act of working together to achieve a common goal. Learn more in: Supporting an Interdisciplinary Healthcare Team with a Multi-Agent System

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Seeking compliance and reciprocating in an equal measure. Learn more in: Gender and Politeness in Indian Emails

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Planning and Acting in conjunction with each other or interact in order to achieve a common purpose using more or less consensual rules. Cooperation can be held within organizations, between organizations and services, and between citizens within social and economic contexts. Learn more in: Cities Really Smart and Inclusive: Possibilities and Limits for Social Inclusion and Participation

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Refers to the practice of people or greater entities working in common with commonly agreed upon goals and possibly methods, instead of working separately in competition. Learn more in: Customizing Multimedia and Collaborative Virtual Environments

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Cooperation denotes the relationships between two or more organizations or parts thereof, which aim at fulfilling some shared goal, are based on written or oral (legal) agreements, and keep the partners legally independent. (Kethers, 2000) Learn more in: Investing Trust Relationships in a Healthcare Network

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Process or action of working together with another organization or someone in order to do, or achieve, something. Learn more in: Organizational Ecosystems: Innovation and Social Capital Dimensions

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A joint action between individuals or organizations for a purpose or common goal. Learn more in: Tourism, Emigration, and Cooperation: A Strategy for Growth and Sustainable Development in a Community of Portuguese-Speaking Member States

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The process of working together to the same end. Learn more in: Factors in Collaborations Between Technology Firms and Universities

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Process or action of working with another person, employee, organization, or firm to undertake or accomplish something. Learn more in: Social Capital and Innovation Performance in Firms

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The association of persons or businesses for common, usually economic, benefit. Learn more in: Population Symbiotic Evolution in a Model of Industrial Districts

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An act of coming together to achieve a common goal through assistance and formation of cooperatives. Learn more in: Minerals and Fisheries in the Arctic: A Geo-Economic Comparison of India and China

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Is the process of groups of organisms working or acting together for their common/mutual benefit, as opposed to working in competition for selfish benefit. Learn more in: Knowledge Transfer between Universities and Knowledge Intensive Business Services: An Empirical Study