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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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Formalised and Non-Formalised Methods in Resource Management—Knowledge and Social Learning in Participatory Processes: An Introduction 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Jens Newig Helmut Haberl Claudia Pahl-Wostl Dale S. Rothman 《Systemic Practice and Action Research》2008,21(6):381-387
The participation of non-state actors in public decision-making and transdisciplinary research is increasingly regarded as
an effective means to cope with growing uncertainties and complexities in human–nature interactions. The management of natural
resources is expected to profit from a broader knowledge base and processes of social learning, thus allowing for potentially
more informed and creative decision-making. Communication is a key element of transmitting knowledge and fostering social
learning. This article introduces the special issue, which assembles contributions that discuss different methods, instruments,
tools, and models that have been developed in order to facilitate the transmission of information as well its selection and
aggregation. Each of the contributions is briefly reviewed. The approaches discussed here and in the individual papers aim
to foster learning in participatory processes. We argue that a key aspect is the degree to which methods are formalised. Formalisation
refers to the extent to which information is channelled in a certain way, leaving more or less scope for open communication.
Depending on the goals and context, more or less formalised methods can be employed. We conclude by highlighting the context-dependency
of participatory processes in natural resource management and indicate some directions for future research.
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Jens NewigEmail: |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Christina Prell Klaus Hubacek Claire Quinn Mark Reed 《Systemic Practice and Action Research》2008,21(6):443-458
Environmental applications of social network analysis (SNA) are just beginning to emerge, and so far have focussed on understanding
the characteristics of social networks that increase the likelihood of collective action and successful natural resource management.
We move beyond this discussion to demonstrate how knowledge gained from analysing the social networks of stakeholders can
be harnessed for selecting stakeholders, and further, how these analyses can be influenced by the expressed wishes and concerns
of stakeholders. Although we began our SNA using concepts derived from the resource-management literature, stakeholder involvement
in the interpretation of the results led to the use of SNA techniques that had not previously been applied in the context
of resource management. We thus re-analysed our data and modified our selection of research participants. Re-analysis led
to the selection of research participants who (1) had unique positions in the network, thus occupying non-redundant communication
roles in the network, (2) came from different stakeholder categories and (3) were relatively well-connected to others and
tended to broker across different segments of the network. By combining insights from researchers and stakeholders in this
way, it was possible to use SNA in an innovative and sensitive way to better meet the needs of the stakeholders and the research
project.
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Christina PrellEmail: |
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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 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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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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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: |
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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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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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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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Though it is claimed that Melbourne is one of the most liveable cities in the world, a systemic examination, based not on
mechanistic and utilitarian foundations but on a humanist, systemic science reveals that a variety of modalities of its social
fabric are threatened and will drive the city to eventual collapse. As usual, the worst impacted are the most defenceless:
the poor, the elderly and especially the young. We propose that an education that emphasises vision and ethics and that integrates
the humanities with the natural sciences in a systemic approach should be the prime instrument of intervention. We describe
a new Master of Arts degree designed on these principles to re-orientate young professionals towards the community and away
from big business and commerce.
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J. D. R. de RaadtEmail: |
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Mike Metcalfe 《Systemic Practice and Action Research》2007,20(2):141-150
The social act of conceptualising a situation as problematic is thought to determine what will later be seen as a satisfactory
solution. Pierce argues that conceptualising something (or an event) is a process of thinking about it through a set of conceptual
frames. This paper presents a method for emerging those conceptual frames from preliminary discussions with participants.
It draws on the work of Christopher Alexander and the Small Worlds phenomenon. Alexander suggests that participants’ statements
can be thought of as being networked. The Small Worlds phenomenon then suggests that this network will not be uniform but
rather be made up of a number of clusters (small worlds). These can be used to identify the conceptual frames in the participants’
statements. Therefore, the argument of this paper is that this method can be used to conceptualise problems. Having an explicit
method is thought preferable to calling for unspecified creativity. The creativity comes from the method taking Dewey’s advice
to switch between analysis and synthesis. The paper’s argument will be supported by explaining how the method can be practiced,
while explaining why (theorising) the steps advised might be creative.
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Mike MetcalfeEmail: |
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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 focuses on the role conundrums that confront action researchers who are engaged in co-inquiry designs for purposes
of generating knowledge that is both actionable and makes a robust contribution to a more generalized body of knowledge. Drawing
on the lived experience of researchers in such a project in U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, this paper describes the conundrums
that confronted the researchers, identifies the central dynamics around which they seem to be organized, and discusses the
impact on the subsequent practice of the researchers. Practices that establish reflexivity in the research process are an
important part of the role of the researchers. So too is establishing relationships that provide for sensemaking and integrating
rigor and relevance.
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Lyle YorksEmail: |