Inculcating Institutional Infrastructure to Support International Collaboration

Prior literature on international collaboration has focused on the management and coordination between participating organizations. Research is lacking regarding how to improve academic institutions' social, organizational, and technical infrastructures to support their members' participation in international collaborations. We use two projects as case studies to exemplify how infrastructural components were developed in individual projects and identify the organizational practices that facilitated embedding these components into institutional infrastructures. Based on the findings, we developed a model to inculcate institutional infrastructures that support international collaboration. This model can help improve academic institutions' understanding of how to better support their members' participation in international collaboration.