Paper Info
Title
Collaboration without Rules - A New Perspective on Stability Operations
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to develop the conceptual foundation for exploring Coordination by Rule and Control (CRC) and Collaboration by Social Influence (CSI). CRC is based on mechanical (rule and time based) structures, while CSI is based on organic (informal, trusted and shared aware) social networks. We pose the overriding research question "How is CSI achieved for stability operations?", and seek to explore how network structures, technologies, processes and operational designs may vary in effectiveness along the CRC/CSI continuum. We find that networks optimized for CRC may present substantial risk leading to redundancies and inefficiencies to activities highly dependent on CSI. We conclude that successful stability operations may benefit from a hybrid approach, with organizations providing a CSI interface between CRC networks. Finally, we discuss research methods being utilised in an extremely complex and inaccessible domain. The research utilises a variety of qualitative data including interviews with military and non-military practitioners. Analysis takes the form of (top-down) case study explanation building in combination with (bottom-up) grounded theory development.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/SocialInformatics.2012.72
SocialInformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
new perspective,overriding research question,stability operations,csi continuum,case study explanation building,conceptual foundation,stability operation,social influence,successful stability operation,crc network,csi interface,research method,social sciences
Grounded theory,Data mining,Social network,Qualitative property,Research question,Computer science,Social influence,Network structure
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.40
2
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Walker110.73
Simon Reay Atkinson272.64
Liaquat Hossain348238.00