Table 1.

Contributions to science (policy) studies dealing prominently and explicitly with coordination

Domain of application	Authors	Explicit definition	Implicit definition
Academic system	Whitley (2003)		Task division across research sites
	Van Lente & Rip (1998)		Mutual positioning and agenda building by technological expectations
	Clark (1979)		Processes creating order in loosely coupled systems
	Polanyi (1962)		Independent initiatives adjusting themselves consecutively to the results achieved by others
Policy	Lepori (2011)	‘organizing social action in a world where there is no overall mind’ (p. 359)
	Clark (2010)		Managing linkages among innovation policy (at different scales) and regional development policy
	Braun (2008)		Creating efficiency and coherence among various public policies
	Edler & Kuhlmann (2008)		Task division and mutual adjustment among policies across organizations and across levels of aggregation
	Van Vught (1997)		Mechanisms underlying governmental policy strategies
Collaborations	Sundberg (2011)		Task division among researchers in a collaborative project
	Cummings & Kiesler (2007)	‘activities that help project teams integrate and best utilize their expertise’ (p. 1622)
	Bonaccorsi and Piccaluga (1994)	‘behavioural rules emerging from ongoing interaction between the parties’ (p. 238)

Note that other publications discuss similar phenomena using notions like governance, adjustment or alignment (Bonaccorsi 2008). Although I have not included these in the overview, some of them have informed my framework presented in the latter part of this section