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. 2016 May;2(5):e00105.
doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2016.e00105.

Individual motivation and threat indicators of collaboration readiness in scientific knowledge producing teams: a scoping review and domain analysis

Gaetano R Lotrecchiano  1 , Trudy R Mallinson  2 , Tommy Leblanc-Beaudoin  2 , Lisa S Schwartz  2 , Danielle Lazar  3 , Holly J Falk-Krzesinski  4
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Individual motivation and threat indicators of collaboration readiness in scientific knowledge producing teams: a scoping review and domain analysis

Gaetano R Lotrecchiano et al. Heliyon. 2016 May.

Abstract

This paper identifies a gap in the team science literature that considers intrapersonal indicators of collaboration as motivations and threats to participating in collaborative knowledge producing teams (KPTs). Through a scoping review process, over 150 resources were consulted to organize 6 domains of motivation and threat to collaboration in KPTs: Resource Acquisition, Advancing Science, Building Relationships, Knowledge Transfer, Recognition and Reward, and Maintenance of Beliefs. Findings show how domains vary in their presentation of depth and diversity of motivation and threat indicators as well as their relationship with each other within and across domains. The findings of 51 indicators resulting from the review provide a psychosocial framework for which to establish a hierarchy of collaborative reasoning for individual engagement in KPTs thus allowing for further research into the mechanism of collaborative engagement. The indicators serve as a preliminary step in establishing a protocol for testing of the psychometric properties of intrapersonal measures of collaboration readiness.

Keywords: Education; Psychology; Social sciences.

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Methodological Model.
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Indicators grouped by Organizing Domain. Clustering the motivation and threat indicators by into domains by thematic coding.
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