Action Research in Business and Management

Four Volume Set

Edited by:

David Coghlan - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Abraham B Shani - California Polytechnic State University, USA

Series:
Fundamentals of Applied Research

Other Titles in:
Business & Management (General)

July 2016 | 1 672 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

For the first time, internationally-renowned scholars David Coghlan and Abraham B. Shani bring together the important articles and publications in action research in business and management since the 1950s. Action research is presented in terms of its historical and philosophical foundations and development, its implementation in different business settings and disciplines, and its contemporary and developmental opportunities.

Volume 1: Foundations of Action Research in Business and Management

Volume 2: Business Disciplines

Volume 3: Action Research in Diverse Industries

Volume 4: Contemporary and Emerging Issues

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.

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

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