IJAR – International Journal of Action Research最新文献

{"title":"Editorial: Stirring the fire under the ashes of action research","authors":"Miren Larrea","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v19i2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v19i2.01","url":null,"abstract":"I start this editorial with a sentence resonating in my mind: “no researcher can, on his or her own, make a broad impact. This can be achieved only by working together”. It is a sentence by Bjorn Gustavsen that Danilo Streck cites in one of the articles of this issue. I cannot help but think that journals have an academic goal, but beyond that, they can be spaces where communities are nurtured. An action research journal is a space where action researchers around the world can meet each other through our work, our ideas and practices. In this spirit I want to start by remembering Morten Levin, who passed away while we were preparing this issue. His work together with Davydd Greenwood was my first step into the action research community, and I started to openly say I was an action researcher only after visiting him in Trondheim with James Karlsen. Our condolences and gratitude to his family and colleagues. Nurturing a global community of action researchers is precisely the aim of Danilo Streck in the first article of this issue entitled “Action Research, Democracy and (Global) Citizenship: Building bridges among traditions and practices”. He presented these ideas initially in one of the keynote speeches of the IJAR Symposium held in Istanbul in October 2023. Streck was editor in chief of this journal for a long time and he is still a member of its editorial board. His article, I feel, represents the spirit of the International Journal of Action Research and its board of editors. One of the core contributions of the article is a conceptual framework for comparative action research studies. It is a framework meant to operate as a bridge between different traditions and practices within action research. Therefore, it is a proposal to action researchers from different traditions to dialogue with and learn from each other. To reach this framework, Streck guides us in a stimulating journey through the contributions of four authors: two European voices and two Latin American. Through the discussions of democratic dialogue (Bjorn Gustavsen), democratic participation (Werner Fricke), popular science (Orlando Fals Borda) and people’s participation (Paulo Freire) Streck builds the bridges that he invites us to cross. He thus stirs the fire under the ashes of action research with an article that he opens asking whether there is still fire under those ashes. The second article of this issue, entitled “Dissensus as part of dialogue in organizational change processes: a case study in an NGO” departs from the work of two of the authors presented by Danilo Streck: Paulo Freire and Bjorn Gustavsen. The goal is to discuss in depth the concept of dialogue. Maider Gorostidi – Garcia, Arantxa Rodríguez – Berrio and Iratxe Aristegui – Fragua guide us through their learning process of organizational transformation in an NGO. They initially share an action research process that had apparently failed, as dialogue was not happening the way the authors had expected following","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116130715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Varieties of industrial democracy – beyond neoliberalism or not? The Special Issue Editors’ response essay","authors":"Johan E. Ravn, Oier Imaz Alias, T. Haga, D. Greenwood","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v19i1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v19i1.07","url":null,"abstract":"We, the co-editors of this Special Issue, aim to promote the expansion of organizational democracy within the global industrial system as a superior and more humane alternative to a neoliberal model incapable of seeing beyond short-term profit-maximizing no matter what the human or environmental cost. We want to reinforce dialogue and debates about the possibilities of sustaining and expanding industrial democracy and therefore social democratic institutions that are under sustained attack by the current neoliberal domination of the global economy. To support this effort, we asked three well-known experts on industrial democracy and on Action Research to write comment essays in response to our comparative paper. We proposed the following issues as guidance to the respondents and were fortunate in receiving thoughtful and challenging responses from all three.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125341095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of Productive Pragmatism: Can industrial democracy be viable under neoliberalist capital conditions?","authors":"S. Sankaran","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v19i1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v19i1.05","url":null,"abstract":"I review the two cases of industrial democracy in Norway and Mondragon using multiple perspectives. From a system thinking perspective, I use a General Systems Theory (GST), Viable Systems Model and Soft Systems Methodology. From a management perspective, I examine how institutional entrepreneurship plays a role in creating new ways of coping with regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive forces impacting the two cases. I then view the two economies from a governmentality perspective on how they deal with power and autonomy. My analysis demonstrates that the two democracies have coped well with internal and external forces. I also argue that industrial democracy would face challenges in dealing with new ways of working that have emerged due to the influence of technology.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122615374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"PRODUCTIVE PRAGMATISM: Industrial democracy under neoliberal capitalist conditions","authors":"Johan E. Ravn, Oier Imaz Alias, Igor Ortega, T. Haga, D. Greenwood","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v19i1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v19i1.02","url":null,"abstract":"This essay presents two case examples of the context and practices of industrial democracy: Norwegian industrial democracy exemplified with the Aker case and the Mondragon Cooperative Experience (a term Mondragon often uses to describe its whole structure and history). The comparison illustrates the necessity of combining general systems theory, the distinction between political and socio-technical participation, and the role of ethos, worldview, and heedfulness in understanding how these enterprises operate and manage ongoing challenges. Our central motive is to promote the expansion of organizational democracy within the global industrial system as a superior and more humane alternative to global neoliberal capitalism. These are not simple comparisons because these systems have different histories, contexts, and dynamics. In making the comparison, we show that the constant process of balancing and rebalancing political and socio-technical participation is a key dynamic in keeping such democratic systems viable. We also show that enterprise ethos and worldview, far from being an add-on or a “soft” dimension, is the bedrock on which such systems rely. After making this general presentation, we put these systems in motion to show how they address the challenges of downsizing and strategic planning. Downsizing and strategic planning show both systems’ ability to face unexpected events and effectively cope with their potential consequences. We conclude that the differences between the cases show there is no one right way to create democratic organizations, but that paths exist and remain open for many different versions of these more humane and successful industrial organizations so necessary for creating sustainable societies.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131868015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interview Davydd Greenwood. The Mid-career Making of an Action Researcher","authors":"D. Greenwood, Danilo B. Streck, Miren Larrea","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v19i1.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v19i1.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"208 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134329305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparing organizational democracy in Norway and Mondragon: Lessons learned for other nations and initiatives","authors":"Joseph R. Blasi, D. Kruse","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v19i1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v19i1.06","url":null,"abstract":"We have been asked to compare and contrast the Norwegian system of industrial democracy with the Mondragon federated corporation of worker cooperatives to arrive at a realistic appraisal of what can be learned from both systems and to discern the lessons to be learned for other nations and other initiatives. In doing so, the kinds of lessons that are needed for the emerging system of broad-based employee share ownership and industrial participation in the United States will be introduced as a part of our analysis. We are hoping that our colleagues and readers can benefit from the books and empirical research sponsored by Rutgers University’s Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing1 and our sister Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123230999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Democratic alternatives to hierarchy – why so few?","authors":"B. Dick","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v19i1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v19i1.04","url":null,"abstract":"Examples are briefly described of organizations that offer a perspective to complement the experience of industrial democracy inNorway and Mondragon. The examples are organizations choosing a structure and culture that minimize hierarchy. They provide a less traditional approach to balancing political and socio-technical participation. To do so they devolve responsibility for coordination of effort and expertise to individuals and teams most directly providing the effort and expertise. This gives the individuals and teams high autonomy. Examples include a university class, action learning projects in community and organizational settings, and a voluntary self-organizing network of facilitators. In addition, a small sample of organizations from the larger sample documented by Corporate Rebels (https://corporate-rebels.com/) is also briefly described and compared. Finally, the examples are located within other, wider, changes taking place.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122399085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction to invited response essays","authors":"","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v19i1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v19i1.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128910904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial: Special issue of the International Journal of Action Research on industrial democracy","authors":"Johan E. Ravn, Oier Imaz Alias, T. Haga, D. Greenwood","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v19i1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v19i1.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130261909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial: Action Research on the Edge","authors":"Miren Larrea","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v18i3.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i3.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116742584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}