The Nature and Dynamics of Collaboration

Published 2025 by The MIT Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-262-37887-1

Human existence depends critically on how well diverse social, cultural and political groups can collaborate. Yet the phenomenon of collaboration itself is ill-defined and badly understood, and there is no straightforward formula for its successful realization. In The Nature and Dynamics of Collaboration, edited by Paul F. M. J. Verschure, experts from wide-ranging disciplines examine how human collaboration arises, breaks down, and potentially recovers. They explore the different contexts, boundary conditions, and drivers of collaboration to expand understanding of the underlying dynamic, multiscale processes in an effort to increase chances for ethical, sustainable, and productive collaboration in the future.

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Ben Waber reviewed The Nature and Dynamics of Collaboration by Paul F. M. J. Verschure

Skip the First Three Quarters

2 stars

It's not a good sign when, after a good first chapter on the evolutionary roots of human collaboration, a volume ostensibly devoted to the topic devotes the next two chapters to how indigenous populations "collaborated" with colonizers and different Jewish groups that "collaborated" with Nazis. We don't actually get to human collaboration until much later, and then it's pretty scattershot until the chapter on collaborative architectures. These last bunch of chapters are good, and should be read in isolation to earlier ones if you're interested in the topic

Ben Waber

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July 19

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