nam a22 c 4500 dowi.8/672006213 nljbp 250625041012.1 cr ||||||||||| 250410s1999 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 0098055950 9789027299390 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp HM48 300/.7/2 21 KJM bicssc BUS085000 bisacsh Action Research From practice to writing in an international action research development program Edited by Davydd J. Greenwood Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999 ©1999 1 online resource (ix, 282 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Dialogues on Work and Innovation 1384-6671 8 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Preface -- 1. On the Design of the ACRES program / Hans van Beinum -- 2. Action Research Paradigms / Morten Levin -- 3. Research in ACRES / Claude Faucheux -- 4. Organizational Processes in ACRES / René van der Vlist -- 5. The Rhetoric of Action Research / Davydd J. Greenwood -- 6. The Rhetoric of Action Research / Siv Friis, John Puckett, Øystein Spjelkavik and Agneta Hansson -- 7. Applied Reasearch or Action Research? Different or Complementary Methods / Øystein Spjelkavik -- 8. Linking Social Science Working Life Research and work Reform / Kjell Eriksson -- 9. The Action Research Tradition in the United States / John Puckett and Ira Harkavy -- 10. Bottom-up Organizational Change / Bertil Olsson -- 11. Setting the Scene for Effection Dialogue Between Men and Women at Work / Ingrid Ljungberg van Beinum -- 12. Do We Need a Gender Perspective in Action research on Work Organizations? / Agneta Hansson -- 13. Learning to Learn / Ann Martin -- 14. How About a Dialogue? The Communicative Parspective Meets the Socioeclological Perspective / Henrik Dons Finsrud Supported bilaterally by Sweden and Norway, the Scandinavian Action Research Development Program (ACRES — Action Research in Scandinavia) emphasized conceptualizing research questions and self-conscious writing processes for experienced action researchers. Participants came from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Holland, Great Britain, and the United States. A learning experiment in the tradition of Scandinavian industrial democracy, ACRES had both intellectual and organizational tensions common to action research projects. This book includes theoretical and historical overviews of action research, reflections on the writing process, narratives about the design and difficult internal processes of ACRES, and a selection of the participants’ writings. A particularly unique feature of the book is the discussion of the problematic relationship between action research and conventional modes of research writing and an analysis of the complex social processes collaboratively managed projects create, in combination with a set of participant cases. Provided by publisher. Industrial & organizational studies Greenwood, Davydd J. editor Paperback version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999 9789027217783 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/dowi.8 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027299390