Moving away from the common/traditional focus on studying organizations from a distance, this highly engaging book introduces the idea of studying them from the inside. Inside Organizations: Exploring Organizational Experiences guides placement students, and any student undertaking part-time...

Purpose: Doctoral education (DE) is central to the development and application of operations management (OM) thinking. The European Doctoral Educational Network (EDEN) seminar on research methodology in OM is a structured initiative developed in 1999 by European Operations Management...

Contents: Foreword / Massimo S. Brunelli -- Foreword / Michael Beer Preface -- 1. Introducing collaborative inquiry -- 2. Theoretical foundations -- 3. Methodology and methods of inquiry -- 4. Transformation and design -- 5. Phases, mechanisms and quality -- 6. The researcher, theorizing and...