David Coghlan is a Professor Emeritus and Fellow Emeritus at the Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is author of over 250 articles and book chapters. Recent books include: Collaborative Inquiry in Organization Development and Change (with A.B. Shani, Edward Elgar, 2021), Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization (5th ed. Sage 2019); Conducting Action Research for Business and Management Students (with A.B. Shani, Sage 2018), Inside Organizations (Sage, 2016) and he is co-editor of The Sage Encyclopedia of Action Research (2014) and the 4 volume set, Action Research in Business and Management (A.B. Shani, Sage, 2016). He serves on the editorial advisory boards of several journals.
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Introduction Chapter 1. Being Inside Organizations Chapter 2. Inquiring from the Inside Chapter 3. Personal Learning in the Workplace Chapter 4. Levels and Interlevel Behaviour Chapter 5. Experiencing the Organizational Underworld Chapter 6. Experiencing Strategic Processes Chapter 7. Experiencing Organizational Learning and Change Conclusions Appendix 1 Keeping a Learning Journal Appendix 2 Writing a Reflective Essay
A detailed and practical review of all the different ways that insiders could and should inquire into and about their organizational experiences. The reader will find reviews of all the individual, group, organizational, strategic, and interlevel concepts and tools of analysis that have evolved in the last fifty years for making sense of the complexities of organizational life. -- Edgar H. Schein, Professor Emeritus Accessible by students and tutors alike, this is a clear and comprehensible study of benefi t tostudents of business and beyond. -- Carol Costley