Why is Interdisciplinary Collaboration Important? -- Interdisciplinarity -- Stage One: Tradition -- Stage Two: Transition -- Stage Three: Transformation -- Making Sense of Interdisciplinary Collaboration -- Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Spanning Bureaucratic Structures -- Departmental Structure and Faculty Role Expectations -- Alignment of Bureaucratic Processes -- Faculty Reward Structures -- Organizational Neutral Space -- Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Academic Culture -- Disciplinary Cultures and Stage One Behaviors -- Creating Cultural Change -- Matrix Organizations and Cultural Dilemmas -- The Intellectual Process: Learning Integrative Thinking in Intertisciplinary Collaboration -- Sociocultural Perspectives and Transformational Learning -- Interdisciplinarity as Transformative Learning -- Creating a Mobile: Leading and Interdisciplinary Collaboration -- Our Study -- Leadership Challenges -- Leading and Learning -- Neutrality -- Valuing Interdisciplinary Collaboration -- Changing Academic Work to Accommodate Interdisciplinary Collaboration -- Leading the Learning Organization
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-157) and indexes
