Conflict and the Collaborative Process: Antecedents and Consequences of Two Inter-Agency Programs.

A conflict-cooperation-conflict model is offered of the genesis, functioning, and aftermath of an inter-governmental and inter-professional program in a major city. Outputs prior to this linkage are perceived as generating major conflicts which eventually were settled by decisions to parcel out certain school building responsibilities among city planners, municipal bondsmen, and public architects. This inter-agency effort is then seen as producing a number of outputs which in turn generate other conflicts which can be traced back to the new policy-makers and, even further back, to conflicts which preceded the collaboration. (Author)