In this special issue, we review 14 articles published in Organization Science over the past
25 years examining large-scale collaborations (LSCs) tasked with knowledge dissemination …

As private sector and government research increasingly depends on the use of distributed,
interdisciplinary and collaborative teams, particularly in scientific endeavors, we are faced …

Collaboration is often a critical aspect of scientific research, which is dominated by complex
problems, rapidly changing technology, dynamic growth of knowledge, and highly …

Interdisciplinary collaboration has become of particular interest as science and social
science research increasingly crosses traditional boundaries, raising issues about what …

Over the past decades, Large Scale Research Infrastructures (LSRIs) have come to play a
central role in providing scientist-users access to highly specialised scientific …

This chapter discusses the social, organizational and technical challenges and solutions
that emerged when facilitating collaboration through videoconferencing for a large …

Although e-Research has received much attention and acclaim in recent years, the realities
of distributed collaboration still challenge even the most well-planned endeavors. This case …

It has become commonplace to assert that practitioners and academics compose fully
distinct communities based on their contrasting worldviews, sense-making devices, goals …

Today's societal challenges, such as climate change and global pandemics, are
increasingly complex and require collaboration across scientific disciplines to address …

This paper explores the relationship between CSCW studies of scientific collaboration and
the larger worlds of science practice and policy they are embedded in. We argue that CSCW …