Turning to Practice with Action Research

The Editors: Benedicte Brøgger is an anthropologist currently working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian School of Management Bl with an affiliation with the Work Research Institute in Oslo.Olav Eikeland is a philosopher currently working as research director and professor of education and work research at the Akershus University College (Norway).Both editors have for many years previously worked as researchers at the Work Research Institute in Oslo.

• Contents: Benedicte Brøgger/Olav Eikeland: Introduction – Olav Eikeland: Habitus-Validity in Organisational Theory and Research - Social Research and Work Life Transformed – Lars Klemsdal: Making Sense of Managerial Reforms through Action Research – Benedicte Brøgger: Research and Change - a Comparison of Action Research and Conventional Social Science Research Methods – Jarle Hildrum/Siw M. Fosstenløkken: The Action Researcher as Change Agent: On Dialogue Facilitation and Network Collaboration – Marie-José Avenier: A Methodological Framework for Constructing Generic Knowledge with Intended Value both for Academia and Practice – Rickie Moore/Michel Peron: On the Axiology and Actionability of Knowledge Creation: About Organizations In Management Science Research – Lucia Alcántara: Creating Practical and Operational Knowledge from Action Inquiry Technologies – David Coghlan/Aoife McDermott: Creating Value for Scholars and Practitioners: Lessons from Organisation Development through Action Research and the Processual Approach – Øyvind Pålshaugen: The Stalemate of Organization Theory: Ever New Frameworks, Never New Methods - May Actor-Network Theory provide an Exception to this Rule? – Trine Deichman-Sørensen: Boundary Learning - Work complexities and reflexive practice in action research.