Collaborative Strategic Improvement

Coughlan, Paul; Coghlan, David

doi:10.4337/9780857931238.00010

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“…Starting as a strategic network (established to engage in the improvement of environmental practice and performance in Ireland and Wales) the network came to act both as a learning network (becoming the source of green process innovation) and as a transformational network (leading to sustainable environmental change). This transition was supported by structural, procedural, and cognitive learning mechanisms (Coughlan & Coghlan, 2011). To address the sustainability challenges, the initiative was structured according to three themes: (a) technology platforms; (b) policy support and guidance; and (c) dissemination and collaboration.…”

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Researching Green Process Innovation Across Borders and Boundaries Through Collaborative Inquiry

Coughlan,

Bellini,

Bello-Dambatta

et al. 2023

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

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Research involving multistakeholder collaborative partnerships is growing, as both academia and funding agencies align their objectives with societal challenges and undertake research in the context of application. In particular, the UN sustainable development goals mandate green process innovation research that transcends disciplinary boundaries. Responding to this opportunity, this article explores the question: how can researchers, as societal stakeholders, collaborate in the design and implementation of a green process innovation research initiative and produce actionable research-based contributions to knowledge? Drawing upon our shared experience of realizing green process innovation, we describe and conceptualize the collaborative inquiry process, reflecting on the interplay of modes of knowledge production and the complementarity of researchers’ roles. We conclude by noting how researchers collaborating in a green process innovation initiative can shape the environment in which Transdisciplinary research (TDR) develops and play different roles enabling breadth and diversity of interaction, depth of disciplinary integration, and production of different types of knowledge.

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Section: Reflectionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Researching Green Process Innovation Across Borders and Boundaries Through Collaborative Inquiry

Coughlan,

Bellini,

Bello-Dambatta

et al. 2023

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

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“…In the context of TS development, Coughlan and Coghlan (2011) and Coghlan and Coughlan (2015) argue that adopting an action learning approach enables interorganizational networks to develop and learn. Coghlan and Coughlan (2015) note that cyclical–sequential phases may be identified that capture the movements of collaboration through planning and action to evaluation.…”

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Building Trust Through Action Learning in An Uncertain Transorganizational Context

Worley

Loftis²,

Scheepers

et al. 2022

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

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This research explored how action learning contributed to the development of trust in a temporary transorganizational system during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a world fragmented by digitalization, social upheaval, ethnocentric development policies, and global pandemics, trust among people, companies, and governments has eroded. The interdependencies within our society demand collaborative efforts that must not only address the challenges of fragmentation that makes task achievement difficult, but the uncertainty that comes with a lack of trust. This was the challenge for two universities on different continents and their stakeholders: to create a cross-cultural, temporary transorganizational (TS) system at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and deliver on the educational objectives of a master’s-level Organization Development (OD) practicum. The cyclical rhythms of action learning and trust building before and during the practicum contributed to its outcomes of collective knowledge creation and high performance in an uncertain time. Using theories of trust formation and action learning, the authors identified how action learning and trust cycles worked together in a TS system to foster collaboration.

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The impact of actor-relational dynamics on integrated planning practice

Eräranta

Mladenović

2021

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Integrated planning processes involve an increasing number of actors and aim to create synergy between multiple knowledges in communicative settings. Planning research has acknowledged that the actor-relational aspects of planning processes are not yet adequately understood, and that methods to reveal the ofteninvisible dynamics and their possible effects over time require development. This research aims at developing a methodological contribution for revealing the socio-communicative complexities of integrated planning processes, by focusing on the aspects of knowledge co-creation and process memory development. Actorrelational dynamics are explored through social network analysis and qualitative methods, using longitudinal data from a four-year strategic spatial planning process in the Finnish context. The findings indicate that a range of actor-relational dynamics affect the level of sectoral and scalar integration over time, and that social complexities have an essential role in enabling knowledge co-creation and process memory development. Unveiling actor-relational dynamics is a promising research direction, requiring new methods for bridging research and practice, and re-centring the need for understanding planning practice on the actor-relational level.

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Collaborative Strategic Improvement

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Researching Green Process Innovation Across Borders and Boundaries Through Collaborative Inquiry

Researching Green Process Innovation Across Borders and Boundaries Through Collaborative Inquiry

Building Trust Through Action Learning in An Uncertain Transorganizational Context

The impact of actor-relational dynamics on integrated planning practice

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