Action Inquiry Strategies: Taking stock and moving forward

Ellis, John; Kiely, Julia

doi:10.1080/713674360

Cited by 46 publications

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“…Central to action research is a recurring action-reflection cycle based on the relationship of improving knowledge through action. Over time, the process itself influences participants to refocus their understanding of what is happening and what is important (Ellis and Kiely, 2000). In this process, researchers and facilitators themselves become part of the process and share in the discovery of knowledge.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…It focuses around creating the right conditions to empowering the group to develop their own self-development capacity. It shares ideas from the theoretical domain of critical theory regarding the belief that people are able to critically assess and change society and become emancipated (Ellis & Kiely, 2000;Park, 2001). Critics of action research argue that results are tightly bounded by context and not amenable to generalisation.…”

Section: Research Article Knowledge and Process Managementmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Regional learning networks: the reality

Kiely

Armistead

2005

Knowl Process Manag

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The purpose of this paper is to report on two consecutive regional learning networks operating over a two-year period. The reality of setting up and operating learning networks and the learning emanating from them for network participants and those facilitating the process is captured through case study. The research methodology incorporates features of action research and collaborative inquiry. The experience gained from the set up and operation of the learning networks is captured and shared. The study concludes by offering guidelines for developing and maintaining learning networks.

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Section: Research Article Knowledge and Process Managementmentioning

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Regional learning networks: the reality

Kiely

Armistead

2005

Knowl Process Manag

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“…See also Frost, 1997;Huff, 2000). In the literature on action research, a number of competing research methodologies are advocated, for instance action inquiry (Ellis and Kiely, 2000), action science (Friedman, 2001), cooperative inquiry (Reason, 1999), insider action research (Coghlan, 2001), insider/outsider team research (Bartunek and Louis, 1996), and appreciative inquiry (Johnson and Leavitt, 2001). In this paper, we will however use the notion of action research because that appears to be the term most widely recognized in the literature (Eden and Huxham, 1996).…”

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confidence: 98%

Action Research as Experimentation

Styhre

Sundgren

2005

Syst Pract Act Res

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This paper suggests that the metaphors of experimentation and the laboratory are applicable when positioning action research vis-à-vis more conventional business school research. Following on from three different action research projects in a large multinational pharmaceutical company, the paper argues that an action researcher can never construct a sheltered environment wherein certain qualities of nature can be isolated, purified, and enhanced, but must always undertake research activities in vivo, in real life organizational setting. Still, the metaphor of the laboratory is applicable because it enables for an understanding of how what Ian Hacking calls interventions in the "hard sciences" share certain characteristics with the action research activities. When action researchers intervene within organizations, the activities are always experimental in nature, i.e., they can never be fully predicted or anticipated, but are initial steps in an emergent process of organizational change.

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“…The research presented in the paper adopts a reflective practice approach underpinned by a participatory action research methodology [21]. There are two sorts of reflection:…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%