Action Research in Business and Management

Herausgeber: Coghlan, David; Shani, Abraham B

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Produktbeschreibung

For the first time, Designed to be a foundation resource for individual scholars and business schools, this collection provides academics in the field with a touchstone resource to help build their knowledge and understanding of the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 1672
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 3116g
• ISBN-13: 9781446276105
• ISBN-10: 1446276104
• Artikelnr.: 44547670

Inhaltsangabe

VOLUME ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF ACTION RESEARCH IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
Introduction - David Coghlan and Abraham B. (Rami) Shani
Part One: Foundations and Early Development of Action Research
The Solution of a Chronic Problem in Industry - Kurt Lewin
Changing a Stereotype in Industry - A.J. Marrow and J.R.P. French
Kurt Lewin, Action Research and Planned Change - Ronald Lippitt
An Action Research Program for Organization Improvement - H. Shepard and
R.A. Katzell
Action Research in the Workplace: The Socio-Technical Perspective - W.A.
Pasmore
Part Two: Philosophies in Action Research
An Assessment of the Scientific Merits of Action Research - G.L. Susman,
G.I. and R.D. Evered
Action Research: Explaining the Diversity - Catherine Cassell and Phil
Johnson
Action Research: Exploring Perspectives on a Philosophy of Practical
Knowing - David Coghlan
Ideology and Political Economy in Inquiry: Action Research and
Participative Research - L. David Brown and Rajesh Tandon
Action Research: Its Nature and Validity - Peter Checkland and Sue Holwell
Part Three:Methodological Issues
Organization Inquiry: Towards a New Model of the Action Research Process -
A.B. Shani and W.A. Pasmore
Clinical Inquiry/Research - Edgar H. Schein
Double-Loop Learning, Teaching, and Research - Chris Argyris
Toward a More Rigorous, Reflective, and Relevant Science of Collaborative
Management Research - William A. Pasmore, Richard W. Woodman and Aneika L.
Simmons
Part Four: Practice Applications
Action Research for Management Research - Colin Eden and Chris Huxham
Visionary Action Research: A Consultation Process Perspective - Rami Shani
and Gervase Bushe
VOLUME TWO: BUSINESS DISCIPLINES
Introduction: The Facets of Action Modalities in Business Disciplines -
Abraham B. (Rami) Shani and David Coghlan
Part One:Accounting
A Critical Review of Interventionist Research - Vicki Baard
Part Two: E-Commerce
Action Research in Turbulent Environments: An Example in E-Commerce
Prioritisation - Elizabeth Daniel and Hugh Wilson
Part Three: Finance
Global Finance as an Action Research Domain: Testing the Boundaries - Steve
Waddell
Part Four: Customer Service
Action Research Reviewed: A Market-Oriented Approach - David Ballantyne
Part Five: Manufacturing
An Action Research Program for Increasing Employee Involvement in Problem
Solving - W.A. Pasmore, and F. Friedlander
Defining the Path to Value Innovation - Paul Coughlan and Mary Ann Fergus
Part Six: IS/IT
Innovation Information Systems Education I: Accelerated Systems Analysis
and Design with Appreciative Inquiry - An Action Learning Approach - Michel
Avital
Power-based Arbitrary Decisional Actions in the Resolution of MIS Project
Issues: A Project Manager¿s Action Research Perspective - K. Gregory Jin
Part Seven: Lean Management
Exploring the Development of Competence in Lean Management through Action
Learning Groups: A Study of the Introduction of Lean to a Facilities
Management Function - Paul Wyton and Robin Payne
Part Eight: Operation Management (POM) and Supply Chain Management
Action Research in Supply Chain Management - A Framework for Relevant and
Rigorous Research - Dag Näslund, Rahul Kale and Anthony Paulraj
Part Nine: Management
Strategic Management in Action - J.E. Olsen and T. Haslett
Part Ten: Management and Consulting
Collaboration and the Production of Management Knowledge in Research,
Consulting, and Management Practice - Andreas Werr and Larry Greiner
Part Eleven: Marketing and e-Marketing
Towards Rigour in Action Research: A Case Study in Marketing Planning -
Hugh Wilson
Part Twelve: R&D and Innovation
The Next Generation of National R&D Programmes in Norway: Consequences for
Action Research and Regional Development - Jarle Moss Hildrun, Henrik Dons
Finsrud and Pål Klethagen
Part Thirteen: Human Resource
Design Principles for Competence Management Systems: A Synthesis of an
Action Research Study - Rikard Lindgren, Ola Henfridsson and Ulrike
Schultze
VOLUME THREE: ACTION RESEARCH IN DIVERSE INDUSTRIES
Introduction: The Facets of AR Modalities in Diverse Industries - Abraham
B. (Rami) Shani and David Coghlan
Part One: Agriculture (Food)
The Role of Action Research (AR) in Environmental Research: Learning from a
Local Organic Food and Farming Research Project - Hillevi Helmfrid, Andrew
Haden and Magnus Ljung
Part Two: Agriculture (Land Management)
Action Research on Land Management in the Western Amazon, Peru - A Research
Process, Its Outcomes and the Researcher's Role - Kristina Marquardt
Arévalo and Magnus Ljung
Part Three: Automotive
Going Green from the Inside: Insider Action Research at the Volvo Car
Corporation - Mats Williander and Alexander Styhre
Part Four: Biopharma
Insider Action Research: Facing the Challenges of New Capability
Development within a Biopharma Company - Jonas Roth, Rami Shani and Myleen
Leary
Part Five: Business and Information (Tech Service)
Cooperative Inquiry Revisited: Reflections of the Past and Guidelines for
the Future of Intergenerational Co-Design - Mona Leigh Guha, Allison Druin
and Jerry Alan Fails
Part Six: Construction (Architecture)
Participatory Action Research as a Tool in Solving Desert Vernacular
Architecture Problems in the Western Desert of Egypt - Marwah Dabaieh
Part Seven: Defense
Clinical Inquiry and Reflective Design in a Secrecy-based Organization -
Michael W. Stebbins and Rami Shani
Part Eight: Electronics
In Search of an Alternative Framework for the Creation of Actionable
Knowledge: Table-Tennis Research at Ericsson - Niclas Adler and Rami Shani
Part Nine: Energy (Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing)
Managing Information and Supplies Inventory Operations in a Manufacturing
Environment, Part 1: An Action Research Study - Tim Baker and Vaidyanathan
Jayaraman
Part Ten: Energy (Petrochemical)
Human Reliability in Petrochemical Industry: An Action Research - João
Alexandre Silva and João Alberto Camarotto
Part Eleven: Fashion Design
Intervention Research as Management Research in Practice: Learning from a
Case in the Fashion Design Industry - Giovanni Radaelli, Marco Guerci,
Stefano Cirella and Rami Shani
Part Twelve: Food Industry
Enhancing Organisational Innovation Capability through Systemic Action
Research: A Case of a Swiss SME in the Food Industry - Pierre-Yves Kocher,
Stephanie Kaudela-Baum and Patricia Wolf
Part Thirteen: Health Care
Using Appreciative Inquiry to Promote Evidence-based Practice in Nursing:
The Glass Is More Than Half Full - Caroline Marchionni and Marie-Claire
Richer
Part Fourteen: Manufacturing and Global Manufacturing
Action Research in a Virtual Setting: Cautions from a Failed Project -
Darren B. Meister and Christopher M. Gronski
Part Fifteen: Media
Diffusion of Innovations in News Organizations: Action Research of Middle
Managers in Danish Mass Media - Anker Brink Lund
Part Sixteen: Merchant Shipping
Research, Action and Participation: The Merchant Shipping Case - Richard E.
Walton and Maichael E. Gaffney
Part Seventeen: Mining
How Control Groups Can Cause Loss of Control in Action Research: The Case
of Rushton Coal Mine - Melvin Blumberg and Charles D. Pringle
Part Eighteen: Pharmaceutical
Using Action Research to Develop a Research Aware Community Pharmacy Team -
Karebor Tuhaise Ngwerume and Markus Themessl-Huber
VOLUME FOUR: CONTEMPORARY AND EMERGING ISSUES
Introduction - David Coghlan & Abraham B. (Rami) Shani
Part One: Developments
Transforming Inquiry an Action: Interweaving 27 Flavors of Action Research
- Dawn Chandler and Bill Torbert
Seeking Common Ground in the Diversity and Diffusion of Action Research and
Collaborative Management Research Action Modalities: Towards a General
Empirical Method - David Coghlan
Collaborating for Management Research: From Action Research to Intervention
Research in Management - Armand Hatchuel and Albert David
Action Research and the Problem of the Single Case - Bjorn Gustavsen
Innovation Action Research: Creating New Management Theory and Practice -
Robert S. Kaplan
Developing an Effective Organization: Intervention Method, Empirical
Evidence and Theory - Michael Beer
Part Two: Insider Action Research
Political Entrepreneurship in Action Research: Learning from Two Cases -
Hans Björkman and Mats Sundgren
Insider Action Research: The Dynamics of Developing New Capabilities -
David Coghlan and Rami Shani
Part Three: Longitudinal
Changing Leadership Dynamics at Agility Critical Interfaces: Action
Research as a 25 Year Longitudinal Study - Gertjan Schuiling
Part Four: Quality
Academic Integrity in Action Research - Morten Levin
Choice and Quality in Action Research Practice - Peter Reason
Creating Action Research Quality in Organization Development: Rigorous,
Reflective and Relevant - David Coghlan and Rami Shani
Part Five: Ethics
And They Shall Be Known by Their Deeds: Ethics and Politics in Action
Research - Anne Inga Hilsen
Covenantal Ethics and Action Research: Exploring a Common Foundation for
Social Research - Mary Brydon-Miller
Part Six: Sustainability
Developing and Sustaining Change Capability via Learning Mechanisms: A
Longitudinal Perspective on Transformation - Tobias Fredberg, Flemming
Norrgren and Rami Shani
Toward a Sustainable Healthcare System: Transformation through
Participation - Svante Lifvergren, Peter Docherty and Rami Shani