Action research in organisations

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Autor principal: McNiff, Jean
Otros Autores: Whitehead, Jack
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
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  • Machine generated contents note: The contributors xi
  • Acknowledgements xv
  • Introduction
  • The new scholarship 1 A book of evolutions 5
  • New theories of discourse 8
  • The second cognitive revolution 12
  • Management learning 16
  • Accountingfor my own learning 19
  • Why am I writing this book, and why areyou reading it? 22
  • Prologue: contextualising the study 25
  • PART I
  • What is the nature of organisational knowledge? 33
  • 1 Learning organisations and the responsibility of managers 37
  • I What is the nature of organisational knowledge? 38
  • 2 How is organisational knowledge acquired? 44 3 How is organisational knowledge put to use? 51
  • 4 What are the implicationsfor the development of learning organisations? 55
  • Learning about learning 60
  • JIMMY RYAN
  • 2 Learning organisations as good societies 67
  • 1 What is the nature of a learning organisation? 68
  • 2 How are learning organisations created? 76
  • 3 How are learning organisations put to use? 83
  • 4 What are the implicationsfor organisation theory as aform of educational theory? 85
  • Journeyman 89
  • StAMUS LILLIS
  • 3 Action research, power and control 95
  • 1 What is the nature of power? 102
  • 2 How is power acquired? 104
  • 3 How ispowerput to use? 109
  • 4 What are the implicationsfor organisation theory as a discourse of power? 113
  • Collaboration for co-liberation: a story of intentional intervention 115
  • PIP BRUCE FERGUSON
  • PART II
  • How is organisational knowledge acquired? 125
  • 4 Doing research 127
  • 1 What is the nature of research knowledge? 128
  • 2 How is research knowledge acquired? 133
  • 3 How is research knowledge put to use? 137
  • 4 What are the implicationsfor social living? 139
  • 5 Empirical research 142
  • 1 What is the nature of empirical research knowledge? 144
  • 2 How is empirical research knowledge acquired? 147 3 How is empirical research knowledge put to use? 149
  • 4 What are the implicationsfor organisation theory as a theory of social renewal? 151
  • Rehabilitating sexual offenders in religious communities 154
  • PAUL MURPHY
  • 6 Interpretive research 160
  • 1 What is the nature of interpretive research knowledge? 162
  • 2 How is interpretive research knowledge acquired? 164
  • 3 How is interpretive research knowledge put to use? 168
  • 4 What are the potential implicationsfor organisation theory as aform of reflective practice? 170
  • Understanding my work as a group leader in employment counselling 173
  • BREDA LONG
  • 7 Critical theoretic research 177
  • 1 What is the nature of critical research knowledge? 178
  • 2 How is critical research knowledge acquired? 181
  • 3 How is critical research knowledgeput to use? 184
  • 4 What are the implicationsfor organisation theory as a critical social science? 188
  • Courage to risk, courage to be free 192
  • EILEEN ROSS
  • 8 Action research 197
  • 1 What is the nature of action research knowledge? 202
  • 2 How is action research undertaken? 204
  • 3 How is action research put to use? 210
  • 4 What are the implicationsfor organisation theory as a process of social renewal? 216
  • PART III
  • How is organisational knowledge put to use? 219
  • 9 Action research in organisations 221
  • 1 What is the nature of action research in organisations? 227
  • 2 How is action research supported in organisations? 229 3 How is action research put to use in organisations? 236
  • 4 What are the implicationsfor new theories of organisation as theories of conversational communities? 238
  • 10 New theories of organisation '242
  • I What is the nature of new theories of organisation? 243
  • 2 How are new theories of organisation generated? 245
  • 3 How are new theories of organisation put to use? 251
  • 4 What are the potential implicationsfor organisation theory as a theory of research-basedprofessionalism? 254
  • PART IV
  • What are the implications of living theories of organisation for social living? 257
  • 11 What should be the focus of management education? 259
  • Action research and the production of working knowledge 259
  • JOHN GARRICK
  • Dialogue, learning and management education 261
  • CARL RHODES
  • Enquiry in action in business education? 264
  • JOHN H. M. ELLIS AND JULIA A. KIELY
  • What should be thefocus of management education? 269
  • LIAM NAGLE
  • What should be thefocus of management education? 272
  • CHRIS JAMES
  • 12 My epistemology of practice of the superintendency 274
  • JACQUELINE DELONG
  • 13 How one school is fulfilling the vision of Peter Senge's 'learning organisation' 285
  • CARMEL LILLIS
  • Epilogue: reconciliations 297
  • References 302
  • Index 323.