Action Research and Organisational Learning: A Norwegian Approach to Doing Action Research in Complex Organisations

Autor/in	Eikeland, Olav
Titel	Action Research and Organisational Learning: A Norwegian Approach to Doing Action Research in Complex Organisations
Quelle	In: Educational Action Research, 20 (2012) 2, S.267-290 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0965-0792
DOI	10.1080/09650792.2012.676303
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Action Research; Organizational Development; Research Methodology; Change Strategies; Organizational Change; Organizational Climate; Organizational Effectiveness; Context Effect; Cultural Context; Public Sector; Public Policy; Work Environment; Social History; Sociocultural Patterns; Learning Processes; Workplace Learning; Unions; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Projektforschung; Organisationsentwicklung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Lösungsstrategie; Organisationswandel; Organisationsklima; Unternehmenserfolg; Öffentlicher Sektor; Öffentliche Ordnung; Arbeitsmilieu; Sozialgeschichte; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Learning process; Lernprozess; Norwegen
Abstract	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 overview nor a recommendation of how action research is or should be done in complex organisations by different schools of action researchers around the world. The approach I will present has grown through practical experience accumulated over many years with doing action research in many different Norwegian organisations with organisational change and development as the specific objective. I will limit myself to an outline of this Norwegian context, and to how I and others have worked specifically with "organisational learning" both practically and theoretically within or in relation to a broad Norwegian or Scandinavian approach to action research and organisation development represented by many individuals. (Contains 2 tables and 22 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10