Overcoming Challenges in Writing About Action Research—The Promise of the Development Story

Hildrum, Jarle; Strand, Geir Liavåg

doi:10.1007/s11213-006-9051-3

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“…Our sessions formed a common set of boundary objects, such as mutual development goals and shared project plans (cf. Hildrum & Liavåg Strand 2007). This may be characterised as an open environment where practice developed at different levels, at the learning forums where practitioners and researchers (or we as teachers) met, at the practical environment where users and practitioners met, and at a personal level where the thinking developed.…”

Section: From Group Interaction To Wider Infl Uencementioning

confidence: 99%

Critical elements in evaluating and developing practice in social work

Julkunen¹

2011

Social Work and Social Sciences Review

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Evaluation research deals with practical questions of how practice is being carried out, how it can be studied and evaluated and how the outcomes can be communicated with the practice. In this article critical elements in evaluation practices are scrutinized from an evolutive perspective. It draws attention to the role of the researcher, the knowledge production and dissemination phases and how these have changed. It highlights the importance on practice connectedness and how this challenges the knowledge production processes. And concludes by stating that to be able to learn from practice, evaluation needs to evolve towards a more deliberative approach and have an active role both in science and society.

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Section: From Group Interaction To Wider Infl Uencementioning

confidence: 99%

Critical elements in evaluating and developing practice in social work

Julkunen¹

2011

Social Work and Social Sciences Review

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“…For instance, Coughlan and Coghlan (2002) is a benchmark paper in operations management research, and Perry and Gummesson (2004) in the marketing field. According to Hildrum and Strand (2007), although there is great demand for articles and books describing what action researchers do, there is little methodological literature available explaining how researchers can go about writing such articles and books.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Action Research as a Meta-Methodology in the Management Field

Erro‐Garcés

Alfaro

2020

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Although it was first developed in the field of psychology, action research is a methodology of growing importance in business and management contexts. In this research article, we focus on a significant aspect of action research: the variety of methodologies that can be used jointly in an action research study and its relationships. More specifically, the aim of this study is to underscore the definition of action research as a meta-methodology that encompasses different ways of carrying out empirical research. To this end, we perform a meta-analysis of articles discussing empirical research that used an action research methodology. The meta-analysis is based on a systematic review of articles published between 2000 and 2018. The main findings suggest that action research may be regarded as a multidisciplinary method and that it can be implemented jointly with other methodologies; not just qualitative methods but also quantitative research. Consequently, action research may now be defined as a meta-methodology or an umbrella process. In this way, action research is a tool whose implementation ought to be promoted in the business/management field as a way of enhancing relevant, rigorous empirical studies and serving as a framework reference in projects based on research and practice contribution as well as active collaboration between researchers and practitioners.

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“…In recent years, a small stream of action research (AR) literature has addressed the topic of networks and examined ways in which social researchers can directly facilitate dialogue and practical collaboration between firms (Hanssen-Bauer and Snow 1996; Chisholm 2001; Hildrum and Strand 2006;Chisholm 2008;Gausdal 2008;Qvale 2008). However, while many studies take into examination specific AR interventions and the tangible effects that these have on inter-firm collaboration (Hanssen-Bauer and Snow 1996;Chisholm 2006Chisholm , 2008Qvale 2008), few studies direct explicit attention to the effects these interventions have on trust-building processes.…”

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Facilitating Trust Building in Networks: A Study from the Water Technology Industry

Gausdal

Hildrum

2011

Syst Pract Action Res

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This paper analyses how action researchers can facilitate trust building processes in inter-firm networks and develops a framework for network development. A longitudinal case study of developing a regional network of water technology SMEs constitutes the empirical base. The paper argues that researchers can directly facilitate processes with a capacity to build two types of trust in different phases of network development, both characteristic-based and process-based trust. The findings indicate that processes to build characteristic-based trust can be facilitated through dialogue processes in temporary groups at network meetings. Processes to build process-based trust are stimulated by practical inter-firm teamwork. Furthermore, there seems to be a mutually reinforcing relationship between these two forms of trust formation, which can be influenced by action researchers. When the level of trust has reached a point of critical mass, new-coming firms seem to jump quickly through characteristic-based trust towards a relatively high level of process-based trust.

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Overcoming Challenges in Writing About Action Research—The Promise of the Development Story

Cited by 7 publications

References 8 publications

Critical elements in evaluating and developing practice in social work

Critical elements in evaluating and developing practice in social work

Action Research as a Meta-Methodology in the Management Field

Facilitating Trust Building in Networks: A Study from the Water Technology Industry

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