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Ennals, Richard - In: International Journal of Action Research 10 (2014) 2, pp. 257-275

The article sets out an experience-based account of “Learning from Differences”, underpinning engaged research as an alternative to conventional detached social science. There is a central focus on Action, and Action Research, with particular reference to policy development at regional...

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Mitbestimmung und Innovation aus Betriebsratsperspektive. Ergebnisse qualitativer Studien (Co-determination and Innovation from a Works Council Perspective. Some Qualitative Resear...

Stracke, Stefan; Nerdinger, Friedemann W. - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 17 (2010) 1, pp. 30-53

for employees but also define criteria for participation-orientated innovation processes.) … Innovationsprozesse festgelegt werden. (Innovation is seen as an important economic strategy for a company’s management. We discuss the … question how far works councils could positively influence a company’s innovation strategy in the long term and how far they …

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Precariousness meets passion – Fields of conflict in editorial and social work

Carls, Kristin - In: International Journal of Action Research 11 (2015) 1-2, pp. 40-78

This article deals with everyday work experiences in the two sectors of social and editorial work. It stems from two processes of co-research, in-volving a group of eleven editorial workers and journalists in Milan in 2011, and another group of 19 social workers in Turin in 2012. In both cases,...

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Reflexive and experience-based trust and participatory research: Concept and methods to meet complexity and uncertainty in organisations

Huchler, Norbert; Sauer, Stefan - In: International Journal of Action Research 11 (2015) 1-2, pp. 146-173

In the course of general changes in work, informal processes are becoming ever more important, and the question emerges how to understand and organise them. This is a great challenge for research. Quantitative research methods are confronted with the problem that complex processes cannot be...

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Research for whom? Labour sociology between observation, co-management and social critique

Mayer-Ahuja, Nicole - In: International Journal of Action Research 11 (2015) 1-2, pp. 79-92

What is the relationship between labour sociologists and the workers they examine, and what function do researchers acquire within the complex field of force that is the workplace? These questions are addressed, mainly drawing upon the author’s personal research experiences as a labour...

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Workplace ethnographies – an underestimated source of subject-oriented work research

Gabler, Andrea - In: International Journal of Action Research 11 (2015) 1-2, pp. 119-145

The article tries to argue why workplace ethnographies, with their deep immersion into daily social action, are more than other approaches appro-priate to illuminate hidden and subjective levels of work. Insofar they should be more picked up by the current debates on subjectivation,...

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Participation in enterprises and in research: The case of innovation work

Porschen-Hueck, Stephanie; Neumer, Judith - In: International Journal of Action Research 11 (2015) 1-2, pp. 174-194

This article shows new facets of employee participation in the field of innovation work in enterprises, as well as in … the research on this field of work. The necessity of employee participation in innovation work is dem-onstrated against … the backdrop of new insights into innovation processes and their making. Moreover, for discovering the employees’ specific …

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Determinanten betrieblicher Innovation: Partizipation von Beschaeftigten als vernachlaessigter Einflussfaktor

Blume, Lorenz; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 14 (2007) 3, pp. 223-223

nordhessischer Unternehmen (N=1.781, n=529) untersucht, ob Partizipation Innovation determiniert. Die Ergebnisse legen nahe, dass …

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Indicators of Innovation in Canadian Natural Resource Industries

Sharpe, Andrew; Guibaud, Olivier - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2005

This report develops a set of indicators of innovation in a number of the natural resource industries in Canada. It … then uses these indicators to assess trends in innovation over time in these industries. The innovative performance of … industries in other countries. The report finds that on most innovation indicators, Canadian natural resource industries perform …

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Firm Knowledge, Neighborhood Diversity and Innovation

Wixe, Sofia - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

This paper tests the importance of firm level knowledge and neighborhood diversity, as a source for localized knowledge spillovers, on firms propensity to innovate. Diversity is measured in terms of industries as well as employee education and occupation, of which the results show a positive...

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