Collaborative advantage

Apparently collaboration has become one of the management challenges for the next 15 years. But the subject remains as something intuitive. Many disciplines do research about collaboration but there are not sound methods to make collaboration work from a management point of view. \nThis paper makes a brief review about what we know about collaboration and cooperation. From the general to the concrete, first we take the biological perspective to understand cooperative behaviour as something as valuable as competition, second we take the main conclusions of game theory about how cooperation works and third we enter the domain of knowledge management to distinguish interactions and collaborations.