Action research and organisational learning: a Norwegian approach to doing action research in complex organisations |
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| Authors: | Olav Eikeland |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences , Oslo , Norway oleik@online.no olav.eikeland@hioa.no |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this article is to present a specific approach to the practice of action research ‘in complex organisations’. Clearly, there are many approaches to the challenge of doing action research in organisations; approaches that are, and also must be, quite context dependent and specific. But my purpose is neither to give an overview nor a recommendation of how action research is or should be done in complex organisations by different schools of action researchers around the world. The approach I will present has grown through practical experience accumulated over many years with doing action research in many different Norwegian organisations with organisational change and development as the specific objective. I will limit myself to an outline of this Norwegian context, and to how I and others have worked specifically with organisational learning both practically and theoretically within or in relation to a broad Norwegian or Scandinavian approach to action research and organisation development represented by many individuals. |
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| Keywords: | action research back stage development organisation Norway organisational learning reflective spaces |
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