Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization

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.

Clear and engaging, this updated and enhanced edition is essential reading for anyone interested in insider action research. It provides a comprehensive guide to the processes and challenges of action research, as well as helpful reflective exercises and recommended resources. I would highly recommend to students, novice researchers and academic supervisors of all disciplines.

• Part I: FoundationsChapter 1: Introducing Action ResearchChapter 2: Researching Your Own OrganizationsChapter 3: Knowing in ActionChapter 4: Understanding Action ResearchPart II: Issues and Challenges in Researching Your own OrganizationChapter 5: Preunderstanding, Role Duality and AccessChapter 6: Managing Ethics and Organizational PoliticsPart III: ImplementationChapter 7: Constructing and Selecting Your ProjectChapter 8: Designing and Implementing Your Action Research ProjectChapter 9: Using Frameworks to Study Organizations in ActionChapter 10: Interlevel Dynamics in Action ResearchChapter 11: Writing Up Your Insider Action Research WorkChapter 12: In Conclusion