Researching Change and Changing: Integrating Collaboration and Action Through Interiority

Self Cite

The overall context of this special issue is that in this volatile, unpredictable, complex, and ambiguous contemporary world, collaboration between researchers of different disciplines, between researchers and practitioners, and between institutions is imperative. This special issue presents seven papers with different approaches to collaborative inquiry. Each one provides a perspective of the way collaborative inquiry can address multilevel, multistakeholder, and longitudinal change in the current dynamic and constantly changing environment in which organizations reside. Taken together, the contributions in this volume make a powerful statement concerning the emerging significance of the collaborative inquiry paradigm and its potential future.

Section: Quality Of the Collaborative Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Quality Of the Collaborative Inquiry Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaborative Inquiry for Change and Changing: Advances in Science-Practice Transformations

Shani,

Coghlan,

Paine

et al. 2023

Self Cite

“…Engagement in collaborative research steers toward co-generating actionable knowledge. This orientation is grounded in systematic conversations and dialogue between organizational “insiders” and researchers on the outside, aiming to address change and create practical knowledge about organizational change (Coghlan, 2011; Shani & Coghlan, 2018, 2021). Developing a healthy system is, therefore, a process where researchers and practitioners—together—find new possibilities of active contribution to reshape one's history and the collective life.…”

Section: Inquiring Into Action Research Through a Rich Glossary And T...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, through interiority researchers can both catch themselves in knowing and bring it into their conscious awareness (Coghlan, 2016(Coghlan, , 2023. By attending to both the "data" of their consciousness (how they are experiencing, questioning, understanding, and judging) and the data of sense (what they see and hear), researchers can engage with the empirical data of their experiencing, the intellectual data of their understanding (by abductive reasoning in the context of discovery), and the rational data of their judgments (by deductive or inductive reasoning in the context of verification) (Shani & Coghlan, 2021). This focus on interiority coheres with what, in previous contributions (anonymized), we have defined as a reflexive approach to action research, a process in which participant-researchers and researcherparticipants engage in the constant reconstruction of meaning around social reality through interaction and sharing of experience and thus unsettling their representation of it.…”

Section: Framing the Collaborative And Dialogical Sidementioning

confidence: 99%

Clinical Action Research and Its Radically Reflexive Way: Dialogical Encounters to Face Current Organizational Needs

Galuppo,

Gorli,

Ripamonti

2023

The paper presents a clinical and radically reflexive approach to action research, capable of nurturing caring relationships and renewed organizational wealth. These outcomes are achieved by creating space for research-oriented, in-the-moment, constitutive, and collective reflexivity. The paper discusses a framework for understanding a clinical and radically reflexive approach to action research. Second, the radically reflexive perspective is illustrated via a case study. Finally, the specific conditions and limits of such an approach are discussed. The radically reflexive perspective we present hopes to return researchers and participants to the center as authors of renewed organizational landscapes, thanks to their collective agency and their capacity to resist the taken-for-granted cultural and social structures whose “sickness” often has a toxic and unconscious impact on people lives. The paper, therefore, contributes to an understanding of radical reflexivity in action research and its implications for productive dialogue between other clinical, dialogical, and reflexive action-research approaches.

“…In other words, to be an activist or engaged scholar (Gümüsay & Reinecke, 2022; Hoffman, 2021; Van de Ven, 2007) who collaborates with different stakeholders to conduct research that positively impacts the world (Bansal & Sharma, 2022; Sharma et al, 2022). Interestingly, the above are hallmarks of organization development as a field, exemplified by the notions of action research, collaborative inquiry, and reflexive practitioners (Shani & Coghlan, 2021; Worley & Good, 2021), and it is an area of knowledge that the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science has developed and published for decades (Schwarz & Vakola, 2021).…”

Section: Contribution Of the Papers To An Understanding Of The Condit...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaborating Across Organizational Boundaries to Co-Create a More Just, Resilient, and Thriving Society

Pavez

Feyerherm

Valenzuela

et al. 2022

In this editorial for our special issue on interorganizational collaboration (IOC), we position collaborative action in the context of the concurrent global crises that necessitate the bridging of interests, positions, competencies, and resources. We unpack the notion of IOC in terms of its conditions, phases, practices, and dynamics, and provide an overview of how the contributing authors support such understanding of cross-boundary collaboration. Through their action-oriented approaches to research and learning, they show a promising interplay of insight and impact. We underline their search for impact and aim to reinforce the potential of IOC not just to be successful, but also highly meaningful to address grand challenges. We therefore take a normative stance and describe how the intertwined notions of justice, resilience, and thriving can serve as a compass to legitimize, organize, facilitate, assess, and study IOC as an important pathway for the co-creation of a better world.