“…Collaborative research clearly brings together people with quite different worldviews and forms of expertise, linked by fluid power relationships (Amabile et al, 2001;Mohrman et al, 2001). The phenomenon of collaboration between academia, governmental organizations and practice has been frequently studied at a macro level (Beaudoin and Mailhot, 2009), but the concrete problems of coordination between various types of organizations in the context of these projects have not received a great deal of research attention (Adler et al, 2009). There has been little empirical research on the management activities of boundary-spanning research programs which, nevertheless, require ''active leadership responsibility'' (Adler et al, 2009: 1137; see also Amabile et al, 2001;Ernø-Kjølhede et al, 2001;Mohrman et al, 2001).…”