Researching enterprise development : action research on the cooperation between management and labour in Norway / edited by Morten Levin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levin, Morten.

Series:

Dialogues on work and innovation ; v. 14.

Dialogues on work and innovation ; v. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Research, Industrial--Economic aspects--Norway.

Research, Industrial.

Technological innovations--Norway.

Technological innovations.

Organizational change--Norway.

Organizational change.

Physical Description:

vi, 266 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Researching Enterprise Development is written by the key researchers of a large Norwegian Action Research program on enterprise development (Enterprise Development 2000). This book tells the stories of how the seven participating modules were developed, created and sustained as Action Research activities. Based on these stories, reflection on a broader analysis of core issues of the program are given on the following topics: the processes within the program and changing models for leadership how research groups become proficient as action researchers local research as networking with the regional business community enhancing the innovation capacity of participating companies participation and democratic processes in enterprise development The reflections and stories provide detailed accounts of how this Action Research program was developed and ample ideas on how Action Research modules can be implemented for other enterprise development projects.The book is preceded by Work Organisation and Europe as a Development Coalition (edited by Richard Ennals and Bjorn Gustavsen, 1999), and the results of the ED 2000 project are explained in Creating Connectedness (edited by Bjorn Gustavsen, Hakon Finne and Bo Oscarsson, 2001).

Contents:

Researching Enterprise Development

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Foreword

Chapter 1: Researchers on research

Part I: The emergent research program. Stories of research-learning from diverse experiences

Chapter 2: Creating a framework for enterprise R&amp

D

Chapter 3: Developing development organizations

Chapter 4: Filling the knowledge gap

Chapter 5: Enterprise development in Norwegian fishing industry

Chapter 6: Fragile coalitions

Chapter 7: Networking industrial development

Chapter 8: The action learning processes of the Nordvest Forum coalition

Chapter 9: Integrating the disintegrated

Part II: Insights: Researchers' collaborative re.ections on ED2000

Chapter 10: The changing program. Controversies and cooperation

Chapter 11: Creating new research practices

Chapter 12: Networking as an action research practice

Chapter 13: Enhancing innovations. A core issue of ED2000

Chapter 14: Democracy, participation and communicative change. When democracy becomes a means and not an end

Chapter 15: Epilogue Research on Enterprise Development. Lessons learned

References

About the authors

Name index

Subject index

In the series DIALOGUES ON WORK AND INNOVATION.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-252) and index.

ISBN:

9786612255090

9781282255098

1282255096

9789027296955

9027296952

9780585461762

0585461767

OCLC:

614662517