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Standing Working Group 4 – Sub-theme 04:

Action Research – Reconstructing Organizations through Action-Research Processes

 

Convenors:

Marc Bonnet
ISEOR, University of Lyon 3 (France)
bonnet@iseor.com

Olav Eikeland
Work Research Institute (Norway)
olav.eikeland@afi-wri.no

Robert MacIntosh
University of Glasgow (UK)
r.macintosh@lbss.gla.ac.uk

Thierry Nobre
University of Strasbourg (France)
thierry.nobre@iecs.edu


 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30

Chair: Robert MacIntosh

Round-table presentation of participants

David Coghlan
The dynamics of creating a community of inquiry in the student-supervisor relationship in practitioner doctorates

Olav Eikeland
Organizational restructuration through on stage action action and back stage reflexion

Henri Savall, Véronique Zardet, Michel Péron and Marc Bonnet
From deconstruction to reconstruction through socio-economic intervention-research
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30

Chair: Olav Eikeland

Benedicte Brøgger
Changing work, working change in a Norwegian retail chain

Michael P. O'Kane
Using the communities of practice model to achieve greater reflexivity in multidisciplinary research

Peter Sorensen,Therese Yaeger and Jeff Swallow
Reconstructing an organization through action-research: A research experiment in a global organization
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30

Chair: David Coghlan

Erik Lindhult
Participatory democracy as a transformational force in action-research

Patrick Besson and Christian Mahieu
Practicing field research on strategic practices

Marcos Bidart C. de Novaes
The thin line between facilitation and manipulation in participatory action research processes
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30

Chair: Michel Péron

David Paul
Action research, upsetting organizations and setting them straight: How AR practices explicit the silent features of organizational life

Maria Gorli, Laura Galuppo and Silvio Ripamonti
Action research as an interlacement between choices and change expectations

Nina Huotari
Walking on thin ice-construction of inter-organizational partner network around ice hockey sponsors with action research
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45

Chair: Marc Bonnet

Siri Mordal and Sverre Konrad Nilsen
Action research in schools with a wide specter of interest groups

Pierre-Jean Barlatier, Véronique Dumont, Laurence Johannsen and Anne Rousseau
The co-conception process of innovation network management tools: Evidence from the TINIS experience

Thierry Nobre and Caroline Merdinger-Rumpler
Transparency of the objectives in the steering of an AR process: The case of a medium size hospital
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30

Chair: Thierry Nobre

Oguz N. Baburoglu
Action research as the below-the-line democratization

François Ecoto and Nicole Barthe
To whom are director's duties owed?

Overall discussion
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45

Chair: Michel Péron

Action plan of the SWG 04 on AR, wrap-up meeting and farewell

 

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