Foucauldian conception of power/knowledge in the exploration of how knowledge and power relations are negotiated in a workshop … which was a part of Action Research project in psychiatric setting. Few action research studies show in detail how power … has the potential to unpack the local workings of power. The analyses show how knowledge and power are intimately related …

All collaborations can be characterised by power and participation and how those forces are distributed within the … sides exercise power and shared control over decision-making as well as interpretation” (ibid). In this paper we try to … analyse the relationships and structures of power in a project that dealt with the appreciation of nursing services in …

The question of how to understand and approach the relationship between participation and power in Action Research is …-2010), this paper seeks to fill a general void in the literature in terms of exploring the relationship between participation …, power and democracy in participatory Action Research. The findings suggest the necessity of overcoming traditional …

The article focuses on participation as enactment of power in dialogic, organisational action research. The article has … a dual purpose: It shows how participation is enacted as power in processes between participating managers, employees … handle participatory processes when participation is conceptualised as enactment of power. This is done by reflecting …

for employees but also define criteria for participation-orientated innovation processes.) …

The application of facilitation in organizational life has become so popular that it has been co-opted in some quarters … explicit attempt to learn from reflection on action, facilitation is further defined as embodying a reflective practice that is … concurrent with and critical of experience. In this article, facilitation will be characterized as a means of bringing out …

economic framework conditions of work. It presents a find as a variant of democratic participation that could function as a … hinge between direct participation and representative co-determination. As a form of work participation it was included into … the German Labour Constitution Act (BetrVG) as part of the major reform in 2001. These forms of ‘hybrid participation’ can …