- Title
- Valuing ordered and organic collaboration: people, place, process and purpose
- Creator
- Croker, Anne
- Relation
- Collaborating in Healthcare Reinterpreting Therapeutic Relationships p. 55-80
- Relation
- Practice, Education, Work and Society 11
- Relation
- https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/practice-education-work-and-society/collaborating-in-healthcare
- Publisher
- Sense Publishers
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- 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). Each man comprehended the part of elephant he felt, but could not comprehend the entire form. Like the blind men in the fable, it appeared that different authors' various definitions, connotations, representations and understandings of collaboration contributed. to the elusiveness of understanding of the entire phenomenon.
- Subject
- collaboration; people; place; organic
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1343282
- Identifier
- uon:29119
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789463008051
- Language
- eng
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