Mackay, David (2009) Action research as academic anti-freeze for organisational change. In: Euroma Annual Conference 2009, 2009-06-14 - 2009-06-17, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Abstract
This paper argues that in addition to making specific technical contributions to industrial partners, academics afforded the time to engage in appropriate action research can play roles of 'catalyst', 'translator' and 'negotiator' when assisting organisations'unfreezing' for change. Through analysis of funded engagements with two Scottish construction firms, it is argued that action research is worthy of focus by the operations management research community as a means of conducting effective industrial intervention whilst delivering multiple academic outputs in a time-efficient manner.
| Item type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| ID code: | 13859 |
| Keywords: | organisational change, action research, collaborative research, Management. Industrial Management, Engineering design |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management Technology > Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) > Engineering design |
| Department: | Faculty of Engineering > Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management |
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| Depositing user: | Mr D. Mackay |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jan 2010 13:16 |
| Last modified: | 05 Oct 2012 06:01 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/13859 |
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