ERIC Number: EJ966423
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
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Action Research and Organisational Learning: A Norwegian Approach to Doing Action Research in Complex Organisations
Eikeland, Olav
Educational Action Research, v20 n2 p267-290 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 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.)
Descriptors: 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
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Norway
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