... leadership to a paradigm of negotiation that favors participation, systematicity, the multiplying of innovation sources and synchronization. The research is based on a specific approach to action research aimed at revealing the inherently masked conflictive energy, and contributing to a more sustainable...

.../approach The research project explored change management through the analysis of narratives arising from participation in group conversation. This comprised a six‐month intervention with a group of six leaders from the Church of England. An action research method was employed that required the leaders...

...Olav Eikeland; Davide Nicolini; Judi Marshall Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review action research approaches to changing practice through reflection, identifying themes, issues and questions relevant to a broader community of research practitioners. It invites additional layering...

... action research, ethnography, and the ethnoventionist approach. The ethnoventionist approach is described by its central aspects: a focus on reflexivity, a management (but not managerialist) orientation, commitment to obtaining a deep understanding, connecting the multi‐layered context, and studying...

... on action research projects. Design/methodology/approach In the empirical setting of a change project in a regional health authority in Sweden, researchers designed and facilitated a development coalition for introducing integrated care. This required an action research intervention that supported...

...Helene Fine Purpose To offer a narrative account of an intervention to resolve a conflict and thus enable a community to mobilize against a threat to its Olmsted Park and, simultaneously, to showcase a participatory action research (PAR) approach to change. Design/methodology/approach...

...Hans Björkman; Mats Sundgren Purpose To discuss political entrepreneurship as a capability to enable durable insider action research projects. Design/methodology/approach The two authors utilize auto‐ethnographic methods in order to evaluate and draw inferences from their own actions...

... a bigger challenge, than a spontaneous, operational VCoP at the transformation stage. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Action research Knowledge management Communities The increasingly digital era and the ensuing emphasis on information and knowledge challenge traditional...

...David Coghlan Within experiential paradigms of action research, clinical inquiry has hitherto received little attention. Clinical inquiry is the observation, eliciting and reporting of data which are available when the researcher is engaged in a helping relationship in the management of change. Its...

.... On the basis of this material, the article suggests likely outcomes of OD interventions for both participants and consultants in settings containing multiple realities. It also suggests implications for evaluation and practice in such settings. © MCB UP Limited 1989 Action research Health care...