This Major Work, for the first time, brings together the diverse publications in action research in business and management since the 1950s. Designed to be a foundation resource for individual scholars and business schools, this collection provides academics in the field with a touchstone...

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...