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...

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...