Research Methods for Collaboration Engineering: an Assessment of Applicability Using Collaborative Policy-making Example

Collaboration Engineering (CE) is a new field o f research and practice which involves the design of recurring collaboration processes that are meant to cause predictable and success among organizations ’ recurring mission-critical collaborative tasks. To measure the effectiveness o f CE research efforts, we would need to use a research methodology. This article therefore provides an overview o f selected research methods, and an assessment o f their applicability to CE research using collaborative organizational policy-making processes as the primary example. This article also presents examples o f research questions that can be answered in the CE research using the respective research methods.