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Action Research in Organisations and Communities: Origins, Evolution and Success Stories
Action Research in Organisations and Communities: Origins, Evolution and Success Stories

Author(s): Mihai Pascaru
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology
Published by: Editura Universitatii Transilvania din Brasov
Keywords: Action research; intervention; findings restitution;

Summary/Abstract: The paper begins with a short incursion into the origin and evolution of action research as a form of knowledge and of specific intervention in organisations and communities. It proceeds then to reveal the interferences with the participative research and with the classical research technique of findings restitution, towards the goal of organisation and community change promotion. Some success stories are then presented: that of Xerox, of the Mondragón-Cornell project, of Pasmore and Friedlander project and, from Romania, that of the Alba Iulia Local Community Barometer 2015.

  • Issue Year: 13/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 67-74
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English