International Journal of Action Research

2007 - 2016

Current editor(s): Werner Fricke, Richard Ennals, Oyvind Palshaugen, Sabine Pfeiffer and Danilo Streck, editor-in chief

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Volume 8, issue 3, 2012

A New Model for Workplace Development in Finland. Rethinking Employee Participation and the Quality of Working Life in the Context of Broad-based Innovation Policy pp. 245-265

Tuomo Alasoini

Participatory Health Research with Immigrant Communities in Germany pp. 266-287

Hella von Unger

Trash Pickers and Position Taking Regarding the Environmental Field: The Participation in the Recycling Chain in Southern Brazil pp. 288-309

Leandro Rogério Pinheiro

Tourism Development in the Catchment of Lake Fundudzi to Promote Sustainable Development pp. 310-341

Konanani Khorommbi, Coetzee, Willem (Willie) and Sue Geldenhuys

Hybrid Participation. A Hinge between Individual Participation and Institutional Co-determination pp. 342-372

Karina Becker

Volume 8, issue 2, 2012

Participatory Methodology and Action Research in the Area of Health pp. 142-158

Michel Jean-Marie Thiollent and Renata Ferraz de Toledo

Developing Practice in Healthcare: The Contribution of Bildung to Negotiating the Tensions among Practical, Professional and Organisational Knowing pp. 159-184

Geralyn Hynes, David Coghlan and Mary McCarron

Challenges of Youth Participation in Participatory Action Research – Methodological Considerations of the Paamiut Youth Voice Research Project pp. 185-211

Laila Wattar, Sandrine Fanous and Peter Berliner

Otchiwo, Ondjango and Culture Circles: From Ovimbundu and Freirian Vital Experiences to Angolan Education. Experiencing Intercultural Dialogue as a Revitalisation of Action Research pp. 212-230

Gomercindo Ghiggi, Martinho Kavaya and Avelino da Rosa Oliveira

Volume 8, issue 1, 2012

Action Research – Applied Research, Intervention Research, Collaborative Research, Practitioner Research, or Praxis Research? pp. 9-44

Olav Eikeland

Action Research and Collaborative Management Research: More than Meets the Eye? pp. 45-67

Shani, A. B. (Rami), David Coghlan and Stefano Cirella

‘I’ is for ‘Insider’: Practitioner Research in Schools pp. 68-101

Inda Schaenen, Angela Kohnen, Pablo Flinn, Wendy Saul and Jane Zeni

Possible Contributions of Qualimetrics Intervention-Research Methodology to Action Research pp. 102-130

Henri Savall, Véronique Zardet, Michel Péron and Marc Bonnet

Volume 7, issue 3, 2011

Socio-political Perspectives on Action Research. Traditions in Western Europe – Especially in Germany and Scandinavia pp. 248-261

Werner Fricke

Self-reflective Ethnographies of Practice and their Relevance for Professional Socialisation in Social Work pp. 262-293

Gerhard Riemann

Documentary Method and Participatory Research: Some Interfaces pp. 294-318

Wivian Weller and Catarina Malheiros da Silva

The Case of the Enfoc/Contag, a Trade Union School in Brazil: Systematisation in Process pp. 319-346

Elza Maria Fonseca Falkembach

Participation as Enactment of Power in Dialogic Organisational Action Research. Reflections on Conflicting Interests and Actionability pp. 319-346

Marianne Kristiansen and Jorgen Bloch-Poulsen

Volume 7, issue 2, 2011

Innovatory Qualifications and Democratic Participation. Experiences and Reflexions stimulated by an Action Research Project pp. 139-159

Werner Fricke

Action Research and Participatory Research: An Overview pp. 160-174

Michel Thiollent

Research, Participation and Social Transformation: Notes on the Unfolding of a Research Practice pp. 175-195

Danilo R. Streck, Edla Eggert, Emil Sobottka, Telmo Adams and Cheron Zanini Moretti

Internalisation of Markets and Internal Entrepreneurship: Competition or Co-operation? pp. 196-240

Ulrich Brinkmann

Volume 7, issue 1, 2011

Functional Changes in the Trade Unions. From Intermediary to Fractal Organization? pp. 8-48

Klaus Doerre

Union Low-pay-worker Representation and the sans-papiers Strikes in France pp. 49-79

Ingrid Artus

Chronic Career Indecision: Amalgamate Career Development Theories and Action Research Perspectives pp. 80-100

Taylor McInnes and Charles P. Chen

Constructing a Participatory Approach for the Evaluation of Social Policies and Programmes pp. 101-125

Maria Ozanira da Silva e Silva

Volume 6, issue 2-3, 2010

Employee Driven Innovation in Team (EDIT) – Innovative Potential, Dialogue, and Dissensus pp. 155-195

Marianne Kristiansen and Jorgen Bloch-Poulsen

Generating Knowledge in Popular Education: From Participatory Research to the Systematization of Experiences pp. 196-222

Alfonso Torres Carrillo

Action Research in Social Entrepreneurship: A Framework for Involvement pp. 223-255

Mathew Tasker, Linda Westberg and Richard G. Seymour

How Critical Can You Be as an On-going Evaluator? pp. 256-287

Gunilla Albinsson and Kerstin Arnesson

Interiority as the Cutting Edge between Theory and Practice: A First Person Perspective pp. 288-307

David Coghlan

Volume 6, issue 1, 2010

Movements of Feeling and Moments of Judgement: Towards an Ontological Social Constructionism pp. 16-42

John Shotter

Scientific Knowledge through Involvement – How to Do Respectful Othering pp. 43-74

Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen

Models of Capitalism in Europe: Towards the Return of the State? pp. 75-107

Steffen Lehndorff

The Strategic Use of Temporary Agency Work – Functional Change of a Non-standard Form of Employment pp. 108-138

Hajo Holst, Oliver Nachtwey and Klaus Doerre

Volume 5, issue 3, 2009

How to Generate Knowledge from Single Case Research on Innovation? pp. 231-254

Oyvind Palshaugen

The Next Generation of National R&D Programmes in Norway: Consequences for Action Research and Regional Development pp. 255-288

Jarle Moss Hildrum, Henrik Dons Finsrud and Pal Klethagen

Learning along with Participatory Action Research – A Finnish Perspective pp. 289-321

Satu Kalliola

Instead of Managerialism: From What Goes on Inside Our Heads to What Our Heads (and Bodies) Go on Inside of – the World between Us (Review Essay: Theodore Taptiklis: Unmanaging: Opening up the Organization to its own Unspoken Knowledge) pp. 322-341

John Shotter

Volume 5, issue 2, 2009

Alternative Paths for Working Life Reform? A Comparison of European and East Asian Development Strategies pp. 155-183

Tuomo Alasoini

Facing Resignation and Silence: A Transforming Action-Research Experience in Brazil pp. 184-214

Marcos Bidart Novaes, Maria Amelia Santoro Franco and Rosana Pontes

Action Research and New Media Concepts pp. 215-225

Bob Dick

Volume 5, issue 1, 2009

Popular Education and Participatory Research: Facing Inequalities in Latin America pp. 13 - 32

Danilo R. Streck

Organizing – A Strategic Option for Trade Union Renewal? pp. 33 - 67

Klaus Doerre, Hajo Holst and Oliver Nachtwey

Phronesis as the Sense of the Event pp. 69 - 113

Ole Fogh Kirkeby

Opening to the World through the Lived Body: Relating Theory and Practice in Organisation Consulting pp. 114 - 143

Robert Farrands

Volume 4, issue 3, 2008

Union Organisation of Employees in Atypical and Precarious Work in Italy pp. 203 - 224

Salvo Leonardi

Employee Forums in the UK: Friend or Foe of Trade Unions? pp. 225 - 253

Michael Whittall and Alan Tuckman

What Knowledge – Which relationships? Sharing Dilemmas of an Action Researcher pp. 254 - 290

Christina Hee Pedersen and Birgitte Ravn Olesen

Exploiting the Reach to Explore the Richness in Inter-organizational Action Research pp. 291 - 313

David Coghlan and Paul Coughlan

Volume 4, issue 1+2, 2008

Learning from Workplace Development Initiatives: External Evaluations versus Internal Understandings pp. 15 - 38

Bjørn Gustavsen

In Search of Missing Links in Disseminating Good Practice – Experiences of a Work Reform Programme in Finland pp. 39 - 61

Robert Arnkil

Building Better Programmes: Learning Networks in the Promotion of Workplace Innovation pp. 62 - 89

Tuomo Alasoini

Why is Learning from National Working Life Programmes not a Matter of Course? pp. 90 - 113

Claudius H. Riegler

Regional Strategies to Meet Globalization: How Single Plants Innovate together to Remain Viable and Secure Employment. The Grenland Industrial Cluster and Telemark pp. 114 - 154

Thoralf Ulrik Qvale

Satirical and Romantic Stories about Organisational Change. Actor Network Theory and Action Research pp. 155 - 179

Berit Moltu