Projects can fail, collaborations can dissolve, and companies can founder, not because of inherent flaws in science but because of contentious collaborations, misunderstood communications, and bad feelings.
In a New Yorker profile of Shapiro, Noxon called their relationship a "contentious and fruitful collaboration".
The close-up observation of that process is the essence of Mirra Bank's cinéma vérité documentary, "Last Dance," which details the contentious but ultimately rewarding collaboration of the Pilobolus Dance Theater with the author and illustrator Maurice Sendak.
Noxon says, "I don't think I've had as contentious and fruitful a collaboration since I worked with Matt Weiner on 'Mad Men.' " By most accounts, the pilot turned out poorly.
The process outlined was successful in resolving a previously contentious situation by inclusion and collaboration with the Aleuts, among others, and could be usefully applied elsewhere to complex environmental problems where severe data gaps exist.
The growth and success of the CSRC have been primarily driven by members' active participation and the development of goodwill and trust throughout our membership, which have facilitated novel collaborations across traditionally competitive or contentious stakeholder boundaries.
Reflecting upon the case, I provide a set of recommendations to those seeking to better negotiate the tensions of supporting collaboration with GIS in the context of contentious environmental and natural resource decisions.
The impact of large herbivores is strongly related to the functions that woodlands can perform, but their management can be particularly contentious and thus perhaps a key challenge to stakeholder collaboration.
The Kuwait supply route proved contentious because it gave the appearance of working in collaboration with the Coalition forces invading Iraq from the south.
The establishment of the UNBIASED research consortium provides an important opportunity to conduct an international study of a contentious topic and provides a potential framework for future collaborations with which research teams from other counties may wish to engage via duplication of (parts of) the study.
However, the issue of collaboration (and especially networking) in research and its impact on research outcomes remain a contentious area with a wide variety of views of what roles such collaboration plays and its general implications for scientific performance (Rigby and Edler 2005).
