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In this article, we focus on the communicative aspects in action research (AR), and how we as action researchers have been
inspired by working with a theatre company in enterprise development. The theatre showed us a different landscape concerning
communication in the enterprise development process. We discuss how communication in AR traditionally is handled, and challenge
AR by introducing how a theatre company creates engagement and involvement in the development process. Action researchers
can enhance their research activity through using communication forms borrowed from theatrical performance in order to inspire
and increase participants’ involvement in change processes.
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Kari SkarholtEmail: |
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Yoland Wadsworth 《Systemic Practice and Action Research》2008,21(1):15-34
This paper reports on a breakthrough in thinking based on 33 years of field practice-based inquiry and previously published
studies. It brings together several bodies of established and emerging thought including systems thinking, epistemology, psychology
and sociology, in a way of thinking about the living fabric of complex human systems-in-process. It is offered here as a kind
of transdisciplinary ‘Rosetta stone’ to those working around the world with one or more of these bodies of thought as a way
of making some critical connections between them. In summary, an integrating ‘mental architecture’ is proposed whereby inquiry
(research as an evaluative dynamic act of seeking) may be seen as the way by which living (notably human) systems come alive,
and which is incorporated, organ-ised, ‘structured’ and relationally embodied in an individual and their psychological mind
as personal process, and in social collectivities and their sociological organisation as cultural process.
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Yoland WadsworthEmail: |
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Jae Eon Yu 《Systemic Practice and Action Research》2006,19(4):337-349
The article describes and demonstrates the use of a new research proposal for understanding the complexity in organizations in terms of a Deleuzian sense of an event. It creates the rhizome metaphor that allows the emergence of different ways of systems thinking, a legitimate challenge to the Modernist’s orthodoxy. For Deleuze and Guattari, micropolitics are the essence of what we call ‘rhizomatic systems.’ It is this concept of the organization, as a rhizome or rhizomatic systems that we want to focus from ‘problem solving’ in a real-world situation to the process of problematization, that is, the making or appreciating a series of events in the problematizing fields. The paper draws on the research experience in which participatory action research was carried out in a Korean distribution company. The participatory learning process happened to create a series of events in which ‘time-related research’ was conducted in order to facilitate the process of problematization within the organization.
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Jae Eon YuEmail: |
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Yoland Wadsworth 《Systemic Practice and Action Research》2008,21(2):153-170
The following article makes a case for the social sciences to renew their interest in systems, drawing on ideas circulating
in organisational and community psychology, industry, engineering, biology and ecology, the new physics, management, evaluation,
religion and spirituality, policy-making, human services professions, and service-user and community movements. It charts
a different kind of systemic thinking in striking contrast to traditional mechanistic social systems theory. Sociology’s current
resiling from systems theory is explained as a legacy of its loyal service in the ‘battlefield’ of the post WW2 critique of
authoritarian structural-functionalist positivist systems and the hard-won interpretive turn to issues of process, diversity,
conflict, change and a critical and ‘qualitative’ epistemology. A new transdisciplinary mental architecture of self-organising
processes for complex living systems is offered which integrates understandings of both ‘structural systems’ and the ‘processual
systemic’ in individual psychology, organisational sociology, and in action research as its epistemology.
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Yoland WadsworthEmail: |
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Various forms of action research have been proposed as remedies for the one-sided focus on theoretical interests existing in Business School research. Among other conceptual elaborations, Insider Action Research (IAR) suggests that action research needs to be supported by an insider's view of activities in order to achieve any substantial contribution to practice and theory. Even though the IAR model is potentially capable of overcoming a number of practical, political, and epistemological problems, it has been explored relatively little in terms of practical examples and lessons. This paper presents the account of an Insider Action researcher at the Volvo Car Corporation, aimed at studying the development of environmental strategies and “eco-benign” automobiles “from the inside”. The paper suggests that even though IAR remains a promising model, the political ingenuity and savoir-faire of the insider action researcher must not be underrated.
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Alexander StyhreEmail: |
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Kathy Luckett 《Systemic Practice and Action Research》2006,19(6):503-521
Through the presentation and analysis of a case study of a policymaking process for the quality assurance of higher education by an external government agency, this paper seeks to highlight the contribution of Ulrich’s critical systems heuristics as a method for enhancing the social rationality of policymaking. It is claimed that the use of CSH enabled the researcher to elicit rich qualitative data that captured different world-views, values and boundary judgments of social actors representing the different groups of stakeholders involved in or affected by the policy. The use of CSH contributed to a policy settlement that involved substantial improvement to the reformulated policies. However, it is argued that, in the context of a new democracy with a weak public sphere, CSH was unable to counter the unequal power relations between the government agency and the universities and the historical-political fractures of South African society that caused divisions within and across Ulrich’s social roles.
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Kathy LuckettEmail: |
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This paper seeks to further substantiate and appreciate the importance of West Churchman’s pragmatic philosophy, and to propose
the development of what we call the participatory and rhizomatic systems approach. The aim of rhizomatics is to create a deterritoriazation
of current social fields and to make sense of the creation of the rhizomatic networks and ethics for the marginalized group
in practice. This paper takes the contributions of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s notion of rhizome on ethical reasoning
and incorporates them into a test. It examines how ethics for the marginalized group can assist in appreciating and developing
ethical management of any systemic intervention. The paper looks into what ethics for the marginalized group is and how it
is achieved in the context of rhizomatic networks.
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Jae Eon YuEmail: |
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Sandrine Simon 《Systemic Practice and Action Research》2006,19(2):143-157
System thinkers and practitioners are trying to help society understand better the interconnectedness between issues that we previously tended to explore in isolation. Because of this, they have an important role to play in dealing with environmental issues. Indeed, the need to tackle those in holistic ways is now recognised and systems approaches are now complementing academic approaches such as ecological economics (Neumayer E (ed) (2003) Online encyclopaedia of ecological economics. International Society for Ecological Economics; Faber M, Manstetten R, Proops J (1996) Ecological economics. Concepts and methods. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham), which analyse ecological-human interactions. This paper explores how new forms of ‘environmental education’ could constitute particularly relevant vehicles for systems thinking and practice by building on messages and practices initiated in ecological art. Ecological art, it argues, has provided, for centuries, a practical form of holistic, interdisciplinary, problem-solving environmental management model—a particularly insightful illustration of how ‘systems thinking and practice’ can be used to deal with environmental problems. The paper suggests that art-based pedagogic forms could help put sustainability into practice by providing an educational tool that respects the systemicity of environmental issues and by encouraging systemic learning processes that are based on improved communication, sharing of perspectives, and stakeholders’ empowerment through participation and experience.
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Sandrine SimonEmail: |
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Pervasive and systemic barriers to collaborative university-community research make such studies highly challenging. Yet the
necessity of participative research means that feasible ways to conduct high quality collaborative investigations must be
sought. In a longitudinal action research study investigating adult literacy, issues facing community and academic researchers
centred upon focus and integrity. Differing researchers defined focus and integrity in sharply varying ways, so that terminology
employed within the programme formed contested sites of meaning and interpretation. This meant that ideas of research integrity
held very different connotations for different actors. Yet the viability of the programme depended on both academics and community
people attempting to expand their horizons by understanding and taking into account others’ perceptions.
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Frank SligoEmail: |
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Keri E. Iyall Smith 《Systemic Practice and Action Research》2007,20(5):387-399
Existing human rights doctrine and enforcement structures often fail to protect human welfare. The new agora project (Jenlink
and Banathy 2002) offers a structure to democratically re-build human rights. To examine the role of new agoras in re-crafting old institutions,
I begin by identifying the context of human rights: globalization, diverse identities, and democracy. After analyzing the
impact of diversity on democratic structures, I introduce human rights as conceived by Banathy’s (2000) Third Generation. With this in mind, I am prepared to examine the challenges and opportunities for shaping a new operationalization
of human rights using the new agora structure.
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Keri E. Iyall SmithEmail: |
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In the modern global economy, new criteria are needed to describe the most modern enterprises: Sustainable Enterprise (SE)
and Sustainable Enterprise Ethics (SEE). Long-term existence and development of humans and organisations depend, largely,
on application of the sustainable development (SD) concept. Already, some enterprises consider the modern conditions and apply
the requisite synergy of economic, ecological, social and ethical aims. They can be called Sustainable Enterprises (SEs).
Suitable activities of SEs depend on their ethics even more than on their knowledge—Sustainable Enterprise Ethics. Attainment
of SEE demands innovation of values, culture and behaviour of all critical SEs’ participants for them to understand, achieve
and use SEE as a more/requisitely holistic practice, based on ethics of interdependence (EI). We offer some new suggestions
on why humans need SE and SEE and suggest ways to create and implement EI as SEE in and for SEs rather than the traditional
one-sided business behaviour.
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Matjaz MulejEmail: |
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Francisco Casiello 《Systemic Practice and Action Research》2008,21(1):1-14
This paper intends to show how multimodal system methodology can be interpreted as a metamethodology that can house different
specific methodologies to be used in action-research.
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Francisco CasielloEmail: Email: |
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Toward a Buddhist Systems Methodology 3: An Application in a Taiwanese Non-Governmental Organization
This paper describes the application of a Buddhist systems methodology (BSM) to tackle a significant conflict (and underlying
issues) threatening the future of a large non-governmental Buddhist membership organization in Taiwan. An evaluation of the
BSM, undertaken six months after the intervention, demonstrated positive impacts, including a major reduction in conflict;
improved communications across the organization (especially from the bottom-up); a successful restructuring to address some
of the underlying issues; a significant upturn in the recruitment and retention of members; and a consequential turn-around
of the organization's financial position. In addition, several senior managers took on the BSM for their personal use, trained
others, and cascaded the methodology down the organization. This resulted in the official adoption of the BSM as the ‘main
decision-making system’ for part of the organization, and the start of wider dissemination. Based on these results, the authors
argue that the BSM may have more general utility for problem solving and problem prevention in Taiwanese (and possibly other)
Buddhist organizations.
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Chao Ying ShenEmail: |
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This paper is about the design and implementation of techniques and strategies to improve end user behavior in the utilization
of passwords within a formal setting. The researchers were requested to investigate the issues inherent in the password management
and utilization procedure within the client organization and thereby improve end user behavior in utilization of passwords
within the organization. The researchers completed an action research study and successfully implemented a training program
to improve system users’ behavior related to passwords. They used a unique approach by designing training for creating passwords
to fit with theories pertaining to human memory. In addition, the researchers also created and delivered security awareness
training. The end users of the target information systems reported that after training they were able to use strong passwords
(A strong password in our organization is one that has 15 characters with at least two numbers and one symbol) without writing
them down. Requests to the help desk for password resets decreased. Users also reported that they are much more aware of security
threats.
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Lorne OlfmanEmail: |
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This paper compares some key concepts from Buddhism with ideas from different traditions of systems thinking. There appear
to be many similarities, suggesting that there is significant potential for dialogue and mutual learning. The similarities
also indicate that it may be possible to develop a Buddhist systems methodology to help guide exploration and change within
Buddhist organisations.
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Chao Ying ShenEmail: |
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Participatory Sustainability Impact Assessment: Scientific Policy Advice as a Social Learning Process 总被引:3,自引:3,他引:0
Manuel Gottschick 《Systemic Practice and Action Research》2008,21(6):479-495
This paper deals with the development of scientific policy advice by providing a methodology to foster a social learning process.
The methodology, called participatory Sustainability Impact Assessment (pSIA), aims to structure complex problem situations,
to clarify interests and basic assumptions, to interpret scientific studies, to develop impact assessment, and to explore
sensitivity of uncertainty and lack of information. In pSIA workshops the participants are supposed to build conceptual models
with different modelling methods, like System Dynamics, Value Chain Analysis, and Morphological Analysis. A case study is
presented that describes a workshop series with political as well as academic actors, applying the pSIA approach to an impact
assessment of Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the Eastern and Southern Africa Region.
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Manuel GottschickEmail: URL: www.agchange.de |
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Dusko Ursic Aljosa Nikl Matjaz Mulej Andrej Smogavc Cestar 《Systemic Practice and Action Research》2006,19(1):81-99
The objective of this article is to discuss the learning organisation (LO) concept in correlation with network organisation (NO), which is an indispensable element for the transition into the new era of management, i.e. knowledge networking. Business organisations (BO) rarely achieve innovativeness, and thus competitive advantage, without establishing NO/LO and knowledge management. Therefore, a suitable knowledge strategy must be developed that is related to BO's business strategy. The last two statements surface our main hypothesis, which is described in our general model on linking the elements of an LO and then tested by empirical research carried out in Slovenian BOs. Our original model of LO has proved helpful in understanding BOs as LOs in transitional economies, e.g. in Slovenia. In them an innovation-based business has not yet become the norm with BOs of all sizes, with success mainly enjoyed in larger BOs. However, NO can help the LO concept spread and support innovativeness rather quickly in all BOs.
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Dusko UrsicEmail: |
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Donna Champion 《Systemic Practice and Action Research》2007,20(6):455-465
The difficulty of managing and validating Action Research field studies has been widely discussed. Several different approaches
to Action Research have emerged, and one of the most widely used models is Checkland’s FMA model, where a framework is provided
to facilitate interested individuals in ‘recovering’ the route of the inquiry. In this paper, I argue that the FMA model is
a valuable tool for planning the application of theoretical ideas in a practical situation, but that, as a guide to Action
Research, it still fails to provide a sense of the manner in which an inquiry is undertaken. The PEArL mnemonic has been previously
offered as a guide to facilitate researchers, participants, and those interested in gaining an appreciation of the manner
in which an inquiry is conducted. In this paper, it is argued that applying the PEArL elements does not provide insight into
the dynamic nature of collaborative inquiry. In order to gain a sense of the manner in which an inquiry was undertaken it
is necessary to apply the PEArL mnemonic alongside a framework that facilitates the flow of the action research cycle. To
illustrate the framework, an Action Research field study is described that was undertaken with residents and key workers in
a shelter for the homeless, where the aim was to create a shared understanding of complex needs and support requirements.
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Donna ChampionEmail: |
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Cecilia Ferreyra 《Systemic Practice and Action Research》2006,19(6):577-598
In the last few decades, there has been a trend towards increased stakeholder and public participation in natural resource management in North America. To a certain extent, the rationale for this trend is found in the complexity and uncertainty of environmental issues, which confront us with the coexistance of multiple legitimate values and perspectives in society. Recognizing this “epistemological plurality” has important implications for both policy and science. In this paper, I critically reflect on my experiences as a doctoral student engaged in participatory action research (PAR) with a watershed partnership in Ontario, Canada. In providing this biographical account, I seek to make a contribution to ongoing discussions regarding the nature, challenges and benefits of this methodological approach for academic research, as well as to emerging debates on PAR in the context of environmental governance and “post-normal” approaches to natural resource management.
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Cecilia FerreyraEmail: |
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André A. de Waal 《Systemic Practice and Action Research》2006,19(1):61-79
Many organizations install performance management systems (PMS), based on critical success factors, key performance indicators and the balanced scorecard, to improve their results. In practice many organizations have difficulty implementing a PMS because the influence of behavioral factors and national cultures is not taken into account enough. This article describes the findings of a study into the role of behavior and national culture in setting up an effective PMS at a multinational.
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André A. de WaalEmail: |