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Finnestrand, Hanne – Learning Organization, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to demonstrate how the Nordic model, featuring highly regulated trade union-employer collaboration, has enabled the building of learning organizations through a co-generative learning model involving both practitioners and action researchers. Design/methodology/approach: A literature search on the Nordic sociotechnical…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Unions, Employers, Cooperation
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Eikeland, Olav – Educational Action Research, 2012
The purpose of this article is to present a specific approach to the practice of action research "in complex organisations". Clearly, there are many approaches to the challenge of doing action research in organisations; approaches that are, and also must be, quite context dependent and specific. But my purpose is neither to give an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Organizational Development, Research Methodology
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Kenny, John – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2009
This paper is a reflection on my journey in a work-based (WB) research project while completing my PhD at a large Australian university. The paper explores issues that arose as I studied strategic change in the university and my role evolved from that of a "change agent" working as part of a project team to that of a researcher. A case…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Educational Research, Change Agents, Researchers
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Coghlan, David; Coughlan, Paul – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to provide a design and implementation framework for ALAR (action learning action research) programme which aims to address collaborative improvement in the extended manufacturing enterprise. Design/methodology/approach: This article demonstrates the design of a programme in which action learning and action…
Descriptors: Action Research, Experiential Learning, Program Implementation, Cooperation
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Naslund, Dag; Olsson, Annika; Karlsson, Sture – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: While the importance of measuring customer satisfaction levels is well established, less research exists on how organizations operationalize such knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to describe an action research (AR) case study resulting in a workshop model to operationalize the concept of value. The model facilitates organizational…
Descriptors: Action Research, Training Methods, Staff Development, Employee Attitudes
Garrick, John, Ed.; Rhodes, Carl, Ed. – 2000
This book, which contains 15 chapters by various authors, aims to conceptualize new ways that knowledge is being "legitimized" through various formal and informal workplace-based research practices. It examines the new legitimations critically, and analyzes possible directions for future developments in work-based research and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Business, Education Work Relationship, Educational Research
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Bottrup, Pernille – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2005
Purpose--The aim of this article is to examine network-based learning and discuss how participation in network can enhance organisational learning. Design/methodology/approach--In recent years, companies have increased their collaboration with other organisations, suppliers, customers, etc., in order to meet challenges from a globalised market.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Occupational Safety and Health, Education Work Relationship, Social Networks