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The Handbook of Collaborative Management Research makes two major contributions to the field: 1. It captures and discusses alternative approaches and areas for cooperation between the academy and industry in the field of organization and management studies, and highlights important experiences and possibilities from recent collaborative research efforts. 2. The Handbook offers empirically based studies undertaken in boundary-spanning knowledge creation projects. The Handbook of Management Research is unique and explicitly aimed at being both a handbook on methodology and a handbook offering research findings and learning from truly collaborative research activities. The editors have brought together the world's leading authorities to: map out the territory, reflect comprehensively on the main theoretical, methodological and empirical developments that have occurred in the field since its inception, draw out important practical implications, and provide clear direction to where the field might move next.
Collaborative Research and the Trade Unions: The Challenge of Entering Social Partnership
Collaborative Research and the Trade Unions: The Challenge of Entering Social Partnership
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This chapter presents a model of collaborative research developed in a project that sought to develop a theory on trade unions and improve union practice. This involved collaboration between researchers and union practitioners at a call center and a privatized utility in the United Kingdom and the knowledge dynamics between these efforts and an international collaborative research network. By adapting the experiential learning cycle of Kolb (1984), we elaborate on a development process aimed at introducing social partnership that can be seen as a useful model for how collaborative research can be conducted from a design entailing local experimentation with managing ...
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