Cooperation often gets mistaken for collaboration in general business parlance. However, it’s not the same. When cooperating, the team is not together for the whole time and disperses into sub-groups for certain activities, which then get stitched together at a certain cadence .
References
Plattner, H., Meinel, C., & Leifer, L. (Eds.). (2018). Design Thinking Research: Making Distinctions: Collaboration versus Cooperation. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60967-6