A. B. Rami Shani & Susan Albers Mohrman 
Handbook of Collaborative Management Research [PDF ebook] 

This handbook provides the latest thinking, methodologies and cases in the rapidly growing area of collaborative management research. What makes collaborative management research different is its emphasis on creating a close partnership between scholars and practitioners in the search for knowledge concerning organizations and complex systems. In the ideal situation, scholars and their managerial partners would work together to define the research focus, develop the methods to be used for data collection, participate equally in the analysis of data, and work together in the application and dissemination of knowledge. The handbook contains insightful reflections on the state of the art as well as detailed descriptions of the collaborative efforts of an international group of leading edge academics and their practitioner counterparts. The applications of collaborative research methods included in this volume include those aimed at individual development, organizational development, regional development efforts and economic policy. The insights from the cases suggest that collaborative management research has been a highly effective means of getting at issues that other research methods and intervention techniques have failed to address. The rationale for conducting this highly engaging type of research is explored in the first section of the handbook, followed by sections that offer new methodologies, descriptive cases, views from those directly involved, and issues and enablers about the use of this approach in advancing knowledge and practice. The handbook does appeal to scholarly practitioners as well as practical scholars.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Framing the Issues

Preface

Chapter 1. The Promise of Collaborative Management Research – William Pasmore, Bengt Stymne, Rami Shani, Susan Mohrman, and Niclas Adler

Chapter 2. From Actionable Knowledge to Universal Theory in Management Research – Albert David and Armand Hatchuel

Chapter 3. Following the Second Legacy of Aristotle: The Scholar-Practitioner as an Epistemic Technician – Ram Tenkasi and George Hay

Chapter 4. Insider-Outsider Team Research: The Development of the Approach and Its meanings – Jean Bartunek

Chapter 5. Collaboration and the Production of Management Knowledge in Research, Consulting, and Management Practice – Andreas Werr and Larry Greiner

Part II: Collaborative Research Mechanisms and Processes

Chapter 6. Towards Inter-Independent Organizing and Researching – John Mc Guire, Chuck Palus and Bill Torbert

Chapter 7. Collaborating for Management Research: From Action Research to Intervention-Research in Management – Armand Hatchuel and Albert David

Chapter 8. Learning Mechanisms as Means and Ends in Collaborative Research – Peter Docherty and Rami Shani

Chapter 9. The Research Circle Approach – a Democratic Form for Collaborative Research in Organizations – Lars Holmstrand, Gunilla Härnsten and Jan Löwstedt

Chapter 10. Academic-Practitioner Learning Forums: A New Model for Inter-Organizational Research – Phil Mirvis

Part III: Exemplars: Cases and Projects

IIIa. CR in a Single System

Chapter 11. Coaching for Sustainable Change – Richard Boyatzis, Anita Howard, Brigette Rapisarda and Scott Taylor

Chapter 12. Dynamic Strategic Alignment: An Integrated Method – Ernesto Olascoaga and Ed Kur

Chapter 13. From Collaborative Design to Collaborative Research: A Socio-technical Journey – Harvey Kolodny and Norm Halpern

IIIb. CR in Complex Networks

Chapter 14. Collaborative Participatory Research in Gender Mainstreaming in Social Change Organizations – Rajesh Tandon and Martha Farrell

Chapter 15. Collaboration in the Innovative Region – Bengt Stymne and Mary Walshok

Chapter 16. Collaborative Research and the Trade Unions: The Challenge of Entering Social Partnership – Tony Huzzard and Denis Gregory

Chapter 17. Connecting Research to Value Creation by Bridging Cultural Differences Between Industry and Academia – George Roth

IIIc. Government and Society

Chapter 18. Monetary Policy and Academics: A Study of Swedish Inflation-Targeting – Mikael Apel, Lars Heikensten and Per Jansson

Chapter 19. Bridging the Academic-Practitioner Divide: A Case Study Analysis of Business School Collaboration with Industy – David Knights, Ken Starkey, Catrina Alteroff and Nick Tiratsoo

Chapter 20. Improving the Management of Igorance and Uncertiainty: A Case Illustrating Intergration in Collaboration – Gabriele Bammer

Part IV: The Multiple Voices of Collaborative Research

Chapter 21. Collaborative Research in and by an Inter-Organizational Network – David Coghlan and Paul Coughlan

Chapter 22. Building Partnership:Critical Reflections on the Action Research Center (ARC) – Victor Friedman, Michal Shamir, Orit Shamir, Israel Sykes, Ibrahim Abu Elhaija, Helena De-Sevilla and Michal Palgi

Chapter 23. Collaborative Research in Pharmacy Operations: The Kaiser Permanente Experience – Mike Stebbins and Judy Valenzuela

Chapter 24. The Collaborative Learning Cycle: Advancing Theory and Building Practical Design Frameworks Through Collaboration – Susan Mohrman, Allan M. Mohrman, Susan Cohen and Stu Winby

Chapter 25. The Multiple Voices of Collaboration: A Critical Reflection – Susan Mohrman and A.B. (Rami) Shani

Part V: Enablers, Challenges, and Skills

Chapter 26. Collaborative R&D in Management: The Practical Experience of Fenix and True Point in Bridging the Divide Between Scientific and Managerial Goals – Niclas Adler and Michael Beer

Chapter 27. Toward a More Rigorous, Reflective and Relevant Science of Collaborative Management Research – William Pasmore, Richard Woodman and Aneika Simmons

Chapter 28. Quality and ‚Actionability′: What Action researches Offer From the Tradition of Pragmatism – Hilary Bradbury

Chapter 29. Collaborative Management Research Through Communities of Inquiry: Challenges and Skills – David Coghlan and A.B. (Rami) Shani

Chapter 30. Toward Building a Collaborative Research Community – Susan Mohrman, William Pasmore, A.B.(Rami) Shani, Bengt Stymne, and Niclas Adler and Bengt Stymne

Notes on Editors and Contributors

Über den Autor

Niclas Adler, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden and, Director of the Fenix Program. He is a former Executive Director of the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship and board member in seven technology-based and venture capital companies. His most recent work has focused on business creation and renewal in established structures, alternative approaches in organizing complex product development and, action research methodologies in the pursuit of actionable knowledge creation. He is the author of numerous journal articles.