While involving parties with varying preferences, interests and knowledge brings new types of know-how outside the firms existing knowledge boundaries, thus facilitating diversity and the "search" for high-value solutions in the technology landscape, it makes it more difficult to coordinate the parties actions in a congruent manner. The central theme of this book is therefore the management of collaboration and conflicts between professional organizations in the context of New Product Development (NPD). This book particularly investigates several theoretical and empirical research questions...