Research Catalog

Title

Beyond theory : changing organizations through participation / [edited by] Stephen Toulmin, Björn Gustavsen.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c1996.

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Additional Authors

• Toulmin, Stephen Edelston.
• Gustavsen, Bjørn
• Toulmin, Stephen, 1922-2009

Description

viii, 233 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Explores the role of participatory action research in organization development. Focuses on efforts to improve workplace communication and develop new feedback mechanisms.

Series Statement

Dialogues on work and innovation ; v. 2

Uniform Title

Dialogues on work and innovation v. 2.

Subject

• Personnel > Participation à la gestion
• Recherche-action
• Changement organisationnel
• Organizational change
• Action research
• Management > Employee participation
• Organizational Innovation

Genre/Form

• proceedings.
• reference.
• rapport de réunion.
• référence bibliographique.
• informe de reunión.
• referencia.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Stephen Toulmin -- Development and the social sciences: an uneasy relationship / Björn Gustavsen -- Workplace development and research: two examples / Kjell Eriksson & Morten Hauger -- Creating reflective dialogue / Robert W. Putnam -- Workplace development, gender and communicative competence / Marianne Ekman Philips & Kerstin Rehnström -- Strategic management from the bottom up: the start of a process of managerial, organizational and institutional change / Annemieke J.M. Roobeek -- Action research and regional development / Werner Fricke & Bernd Hofmaier -- The Development organization as communicative instrumentation: experiences from the Karlstad program / Per H. Engelstad -- Searching for a program in national participation: an action research experiment in Turkey / Oǧuz N. Babüroǧlu -- 'This is not the whole story ... ": on the demand for scientific reports of action research / Øyvind Pålshaugen -- Pragmatizing communicative reason / Thomas McCarthy -- Reflections on the epigenetic significance of action research / Hans van Beinum, Claude Faucheuz & René van der Vlist -- Concluding methodological reflections: Élitism and democracy among the sciences / Stephen Toulmin.

ISBN

• 9027217726 (Eur.)
• 1556198264 (U.S.)

LCCN

^^^96013109^

OCLC

• 34471867
• SCSB-12004183

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library