About the Authors

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Development and the Social Sciences: An uneasy relationship 5
6. 2. Workplace Development and Research: Two examples 31
7. 3. Creating Reflective Dialogue 41
8. 4. Workplace development, Gender and Communicative Competence 53
9. 5. Strategic Management from the Bottom Up: The start of a process of managerial, organizational and institutional change 67
10. 6. Action Research and Regional Development 83
11. 7. The Development Organization as Communicative Instumentation: Experiences from the Karlstad program 89
12. 8. Searching for a Program in National Participation: An action research experiment in Turkey 119
13. 9. ‘This is Not the Whole Story…’: On the demand for scientific reports of action research 137
14. 10. Pragmatizing Communicative Reason 159
15. 11. Reflections on the Epigenetics Significance of Action Research 179
16. 12. Concluding Methodological Reflections: Élitism and democracy among the sciences 203
17. About the Authors 227
18. Index 231