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Action Research in Organizations
Participation in Change Processes
This book is available to read until 15th January, 2026
- 328 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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Available until 15 Jan |Learn more
Action Research in Organizations
Participation in Change Processes
About this book
Who decides to initiate change processes in organizations? Who sets the goals? What does it mean for employees to participate in change processes? The book examines organizational change processes based on collaboration between employers, employees and action researchers in Europe and the U.S. in the later part of the 20th century. The authors offer important insights into participation and change in organizations for researchers and practitioners by identifying dilemmas and paradoxes, conflicting interests and exercising of power.
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Yes, you can access Action Research in Organizations by Ass. Prof. em. Ph.D. Marianne Kristiansen,Jørgen Bloch-Poulsen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Organisational Behaviour. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I: Participation in organizational changes
- Chapter 1: An example of tensions and dilemmas in organizational action research. ‘On the infinitely large in the infinitely small’ in Team Product Support‘On the infinitely large in the infinitely small’ in Team Product Support
- Chapter 2: A historical view of employee participation: four understandings
- Part II: An empathetic-critical view of participation in organizational action research in the twentieth century—From self-managing groups to co-generation of practical and theoretical change?
- Chapter 3: Change-oriented social science: Early organizational action research in the USA in the 1940s
- Chapter 4: The origin of socio-technical systems thinking—Studies at British coal mines in the 1950s
- Chapter 5: Industrial democracy: Experiments in Norway in the 1960s
- Chapter 6: Democratic dialogues—Dialogue conferences in Norway and Sweden in the 1980s
- Chapter 7: Pragmatic action research—Projects in Spanish cooperatives in the latter half of the 1980s
- Chapter 8: Participation, past and future
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter