Levels and interlevels --Organizational levels : theory and practice -- Action research activity 1.1 -- Case : Omega Foundation -- Interlevel dynamics -- Action research activity 2.1 -- Action research activity 2.2 -- Case : the IT investment -- Case : interlevel dynamics in extended...

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...

Action research and collaborative management research emerge from different traditions and each begins from a different foundational position in regard to action and to collaboration. Both are different from the traditional research, evaluative research or practitioner research orientations....