Henrik Saabye, Paul Coughlan, Thomas Borup Kristensen
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摘要
本文探讨了让伙伴组织参与行动研究(AR)计划中的共同生成学习过程的复杂性。尽管达成了正式协议,但行动研究人员在通过行动研究周期合作解决具体组织问题时往往面临挑战。当行动研究人员扮演 "友好的局外人 "角色时,他们的首要任务是确保作为发起人的高层领导对 AR 计划做出承诺。然而,现有文献缺乏促进这种承诺的全面指导。因此,本文从文献和经验案例中汲取营养,探讨了实践活动发起人在确保资金和政治支持、提供建设性批评意见以及促进学习方面的关键作用。本文还深入探讨了行动研究人员如何促进发起人有效发挥这些作用,从而确保可持续发展研究计划所带来的组织变革的成功和可持续性。
Exploring Action Research Sponsorship: Role and Enactment
This paper explores the complexities of involving partner organisations in co-generative learning processes within Action Research (AR) initiatives. Despite formal agreements, action researchers often face challenges in collaboratively addressing specific organisational issues through AR cycles. When action researchers adopt the “friendly outsider’ role, their initial task is to secure commitment to an AR initiative from senior leaders as sponsors. However, the existing literature lacks comprehensive guidance on facilitating this commitment. Therefore, drawing from both literature and empirical cases, this paper examines the pivotal role of the AR sponsor in securing funding and political backing, offering constructive critique, and facilitating learning. It provides insights into how action researchers can facilitate sponsors to enact these roles effectively so as to ensure the success and sustainability of organisational changes resulting from AR initiatives.
期刊介绍:
Systemic Practice and Action Research is dedicated to advancing deeper understandings of issues that confront the contemporary world, and better means for engaging with these issues for the benefit of individuals, organizations, communities and their natural environments. To this end, a fundamental rethink of the purposes and methods of science is needed, making it more systemic and action-orientated. The journal therefore seeks to make a substantial contribution to rethinking science as well as to the reflective application of systemic practice and action research in all types of organizational and social settings. This international journal is committed to nurturing wide-ranging conversations around both qualitative and technical approaches for the betterment of people''s lives and ways of working together. It seeks to influence policy and strategy in its advocacy of action research as a primary means to gain vision and leverage in wicked problem areas. All forms of investigation and reasoning are considered potentially suitable for publication, including personal experience. There are no priorities attached to settings for studies and no greater significance given to one methodological style over another - as long as the work demonstrates a reflective and systemic quality. The journal welcomes manuscripts that are original, are well written, and contain a vivid argument. Papers normally will demonstrate knowledge of existing literature. Full papers are normally between 5,000 – 10,000 words (although longer papers will not be excluded if the argument justifies the word count) and short papers are about 2,000 words. Notes and letters are welcomed for publication in the ''notes from the field'' and ''letters'' sections. A rigorous mentoring-based refereeing system is applied in all cases. Officially cited as: Syst Pract Action Res