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...

Improvement is fundamental to the competitiveness of networks and requires the participating firms to collaborate in identifying and introducing changes. This book presents collaborative strategic improvement as a cycle of activities in which firms in a network can engage together. Drawing on...

The application of action learning in inter-organizational settings is largely undeveloped. This article presents a description of and reflection on an action learning approach to enabling collaborative improvement in the extended manufacturing enterprise. The article focuses in particular on...

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....