Systematic Literature Review: Research Collaboration and Social Software
Research collaboration between individuals, institutions, and nations has become a more and more common phenomenon in recent years and is regarded as a major driver for generating scientific insights that form the basis for innovation (Van Rijnsoever &
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Systematic Literature Review: Research Collaboration and Social Software
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Research Collaboration: The Need for Technological Support by Social Software6
Research collaboration between individuals, institutions, and nations has become a more and more common phenomenon in recent years and is regarded as a major driver for generating scientific insights that form the basis for innovation (Van Rijnsoever & Hessels, 2011; Bercovitz & Feldman, 2011; Heinze et al, 2009). While extremely beneficial, the collaboration part of research collaboration and its distributed and geographically dispersed nature poses various challenges (Walsh & Maloney, 2007), which internet‐based means of communication like social software and social networking services have the potential to reduce in part (Vasileiadou & Vliegenthart, 2009; Hoekman et al., 2010). This chapter first looks at the attributes, benefits, and challenges of research collaboration in detail. Second, it identifies the need for technological support of research collaboration that can help mitigate some of the challenges associated with collaborative and distributed research. Third, it explains why a systematic review of the field is a necessity and constitutes an important contribution. Finally, the aims of this systematic literature review and the research approach and steps used to achieve them are described.
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Attributes, Benefits, and Challenges of Research Collaboration
There is a broad consensus in the scientific world that seminal insights today are typically generated in collaborative research projects (Heinze & Kuhlmann, 2008; Adams et al., 2005; Haeussler & Sauermann, 2013). Among the many drivers and factors that have turned scientific production into a highly social and collaborative
6 This literature review is a vastly expanded version of a previous publication that was presented at the EURAM Annual Conference 2010 in Rome (see Söldner, Bullinger, & Möslein, 2010). Although that publication was co‐authored, the research design, the data collection, the analysis of data, and the interpretation of the results are primarily attributable to Jens‐Henrik Söldner
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Part II: Systematic Literature Review
activity (Haeussler & Sauermann, 2013) are large resource requirements, the interdisciplinary nature of many research projects, and the increasing specializations of scholars (Katz & Martin, 1997; Laudel, 2002). 1.1.1
Attributes of research collaboration
Research collaboration constitutes a phenomenon that has been systematically studied for many decades. Early studies investigating resear
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