Participation and enterprise networks within a regional context

Claussen, Tor

doi:10.1075/dowi.15.07cla

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“…Instead of the rise and fall curve that characterized the experimental projects of the 1960s and 1970s, the program strategy demonstrated a potential for continuous growth. A further point was that even if the number of organizations that had undergone major change was limited, there was, by the end of the program, a substantial number of organizations linked to the core ones through network formations (Claussen, 2001).…”

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Social impact and the justification of action research knowledge

Gustavsen¹

2014

Action Research

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Generalization in research takes the form of statements where knowledge is claimed to be valid for objects beyond those actually studied. Can action research knowledge, with its emphasis on cooperation between research and those concerned, apply this notion? Several action researchers seem to answer this question in the negative in the sense that they introduce specific measures to support the broad application of knowledge emanating from action research, such as locating projects within networks, working with leaders who can carry the knowledge to further users, organizing the project as large scale events, and more. The purpose of this article is to discuss some of these measures with a view to bringing them together in a broader perspective on how to make action research knowledge reach out in society, with participative constructivism as the core concept.

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Social impact and the justification of action research knowledge

Gustavsen¹

2014

Action Research

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“…The work of these and other researchers has broadened the agenda of working life studies to include networks of companies and development coalitions at the regional level (Claussen 2003;Asheim 2001). In Norway this broadened agenda has led to an interest in research that combines regional studies and AR.…”

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From Researching Regions at a Distance to Participatory Network Building: Integrating Action Research and Economic Geography

Sæther

2006

Syst Pract Act Res

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This paper describes the change in a researcher's practices from one of studying regional industrial development at a distance to one of working closely with a network of agri-food managers. This is accompanied by a discussion of the methodological and theoretical possibilities for an action research inspired economic geography. Some of the core characteristics of a pragmatic conceptualization of action research are revised. It is argued that theoretical developments within economic geography make possible a dialogue between researchers and local actors and that economic geography is challenged to accept that knowledge is generated through such a dialogue. Attempts to create a dialogue between action research and economic geography in a specific Norwegian industrial and geographical context are described. These attempts indicate that the researcher's methodological approach has been transformed from a narrow one relying solely on conventional social science methods to a broader one including participatory action research.

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Practical discourse and the notion of democratic dialogue

Gustavsen¹

2015

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The notion of democratic dialogue made its entrance in Scandinavian workplacedevelopment in the 1980s. One reason was the need, recognised by the labour marketparties, for replacing negotiations with more evolutionary forms of communication in localdevelopment contexts. The article traces the emergence of the concept, its content and itsfate as a moving force in development processes. The movement towards dialogue has beensuccessful in the sense that dialogue has become common in workplace conversations. Thedevelopment also raises new challenges.

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Participation and enterprise networks within a regional context

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Social impact and the justification of action research knowledge

Social impact and the justification of action research knowledge

From Researching Regions at a Distance to Participatory Network Building: Integrating Action Research and Economic Geography

Practical discourse and the notion of democratic dialogue

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