Abstract
Increasingly, the management and future planning of a tourist destination
is underpinned by research emerging from collaborative research undertakings,
yet little is known of the ways in which the processes underlying
these research settings facilitate or impair eventual project outcomes.
While network theories of knowledge management acknowledge social
relations as central to the possibility of learning, and organisational
psychology recognises the role of affect in individual and group
processes, the two have not been considered conjointly in attempts
to understand the dynamics of collaborative research settings. The
results of a 3-year qualitative study of a collaborative tourism
research project show that there are five dominant factors that would
influence research outcomes. These factors relate to communication,
individual cognition, social contingencies, affect, and values. A
model depicting the interrelatedness of these factors is presented
in order to provide a platform from which to understand the dynamic
processes inherent in a collaborative research setting.
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