Different partnerships produce different
types of following behaviors. Collaborators
who engage in an economic partnership (we
call them, for short, e-collaborators) do not
follow the leader in the same way that do
collaborators who engage in a work or
contribution partnership (we call them,
respectively, w-collaborators and ccollaborators).
E-collaborators are interested
in the formal agreement and in the extrinsic
rewards they are supposed to get in exchange
for their work. They are not interested in
pushing themselves into a learning
experience, and much less in challenging the
system at the risk of their rewards. They
need to conform to their leader's demands in
anything that the leader can formally
control, even if they do not like it or think it
is wrong, because they do not want to be punished. This pattern of following
behaviors is what we call uniformity. Typical
consequences of this pattern of behaviors are
lack of initiative and groupthink.