Action research in organisations
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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.