Journal of Advances in Humanities and Social Sciences
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Journal ISSN: 2414-3111
Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.20474/jahss-5.1.5
Received: 07 December 2018
Accepted: 03 January 2019
Published: 20 February 2019
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  • A preliminary study on the cause of conflicts in multidisciplinary collaboration


Shou-Te Pan, Li-Shu Lu

Published online: 2019

Abstract

The current research explored the causes of conflicts in multidisciplinary team collaboration. This study proposed to take multidisciplinary teamwork conflicts as the subject to summarize the conflicts in this field by analyzing and summarizing the content of many cases. In the study, relevant research on multidisciplinary teams was collected over the ten years and selected five papers involving the research on the cooperation process of the same. We found that each team involved at least three fields, namely engineering, management, and management design. This paper sorted out the problems arising from multidisciplinary collaboration through content analysis. It grouped them through the KJ method (also called affinity diagram method), collaborating with researchers with exact experience for further analysis and induction. According to the study, problems encountered by multidisciplinary teams can be classified into nine categories: professional background, team composition, task allocation, role positioning, relationship, communication, attitude, efficiency, and external factors. To be specifically This study is expected to clarify the problems arising in the process of multidisciplinary team collaboration, providing references for subsequent researchers.