Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization

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.

• Part I: FoundationsChapter 1: Introducing Action ResearchChapter 2: Researching Your Own OrganizationsChapter 3: Knowing in ActionChapter 4: Understanding Action ResearchPart II: Issues and Challenges in Researching Your own OrganizationChapter 5: Preunderstanding, Role Duality and AccessChapter 6: Managing Ethics and Organizational PoliticsPart III: ImplementationChapter 7: Constructing and Selecting Your ProjectChapter 8: Designing and Implementing Your Action Research ProjectChapter 9: Using Frameworks to Study Organizations in ActionChapter 10: Interlevel Dynamics in Action ResearchChapter 11: Writing Up Your Insider Action Research WorkChapter 12: In Conclusion

Clear and engaging, this updated and enhanced edition is essential reading for anyone interested in insider action research. It provides a comprehensive guide to the processes and challenges of action research, as well as helpful reflective exercises and recommended resources. I would highly recommend to students, novice researchers and academic supervisors of all disciplines.