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Collaboration through Municipal Motivators

Collaboration through Municipal Motivators

James L. Smith
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781605661063|ISBN10: 1605661066|EISBN13: 9781605661070
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-106-3.ch045
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Smith, James L. "Collaboration through Municipal Motivators." Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy, edited by Janet Salmons and Lynn Wilson, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 679-694. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-106-3.ch045

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Smith, J. L. (2009). Collaboration through Municipal Motivators. In J. Salmons & L. Wilson (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy (pp. 679-694). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-106-3.ch045

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Smith, James L. "Collaboration through Municipal Motivators." In Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy, edited by Janet Salmons and Lynn Wilson, 679-694. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-106-3.ch045

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Abstract

This chapter reveals the common theme three rural Minnesota communities used in their collaboration efforts in to install and deliver broadband Internet as a municipal utility. The author discovered that the reason for this broadband initiative was a municipal motivator, unique to each city and not related to economic development. It is hoped that other rural communities in search of high-speed Internet, after having digested the results of this study, might conduct their own research in order to determine their true, underlying motivation for delivering improved Internet service. By agreeing on the motivator for each community, local leaders are better able to collaborate on achieving this common goal.

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