title: Collaboration as an organizational process.
abstract: Successful collaboration does not happen by chance. An understanding of organizations and systems, and planned preventive and corrective actions are needed. These two different experiences with health departments in two different states have helped elucidate the relevant principles and provided examples that may be useful to others in building collaborative research relationships.
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor 48109-0482.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dawkins
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Oakley
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ervin
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D000078329:Workforce