Open AccessACTION RESEARCH IN ORGANISATIONS AND COMMUNITIES:ORIGINS, EVOLUTION AND SUCCESS STORIES
Author(s) -
Mihai Pascaru
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bulletin of the "transilvania" university of braşov. series vii, social sciences and law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2066-771X
pISSN - 2066-7701
DOI - 10.31926/but.ssl.2020.13.62.1.7
Subject(s) - promotion (chess) , action research , action (physics) , intervention (counseling) , restitution , political science , planned change , sociology , public relations , organizational change , pedagogy , psychology , law , physics , quantum mechanics , psychiatry , politics
The paper begins with a short incursion into the origin and evolution of action research as a form of knowledge and of specific intervention in organisations and communities. It proceeds then to reveal the interferences with the participative research and with the classical research technique of findings restitution, towards the goal of organisation and community change promotion. Some success stories are then presented: that of Xerox, of the Mondragón-Cornell project, of Pasmore and Friedlander project and, from Romania, that of the Alba Iulia Local Community Barometer 2015.