Inside Organizations

David Coghlan is a Professor Emeritus and Fellow Emeritus at the Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is author of over 250 articles and book chapters. Recent books include: Collaborative Inquiry in Organization Development and Change (with A.B. Shani, Edward Elgar, 2021), Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization (5th ed. Sage 2019); Conducting Action Research for Business and Management Students (with A.B. Shani, Sage 2018), Inside Organizations (Sage, 2016) and he is co-editor of The Sage Encyclopedia of Action Research (2014) and the 4 volume set, Action Research in Business and Management (A.B. Shani, Sage, 2016). He serves on the editorial advisory boards of several journals.

Inside Organisations is a great introduction to an undergraduate audience of some rather more complex writings. It is presented in such a way that these powerful ideas are communicated in a way that well feel straightforward to its reader, without having to delve through a multitude of classic works. If you are engaged in student placements or internships I commend it to you.

• IntroductionChapter 1. Being Inside OrganizationsChapter 2. Inquiring from the InsideChapter 3. Personal Learning in the WorkplaceChapter 4. Levels and Interlevel BehaviourChapter 5. Experiencing the Organizational UnderworldChapter 6. Experiencing Strategic ProcessesChapter 7. Experiencing Organizational Learning and ChangeConclusionsAppendix 1 Keeping a Learning JournalAppendix 2 Writing a Reflective Essay