Action Research in Business and Management

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 Naeslund, 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 Pal 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 Arevalo 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 - Joao Alexandre Silva and Joao 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 Bjoerkman 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