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Cover How to do Action Research for Transformations
How to do Action Research for Transformations
At a Time of Eco-Social Crisis
Hilary Bradbury

Capturing years of innovation within contemporary action research, Hilary Bradbury highlights where action research for transformations (ART) is directed: towards responding to climate change and achieving global sustainability goals. Paying particular attention to social justice, the book brings together the human and social sciences, exploring the impact action research can make.

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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
10 Jun 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800373051
Collections:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2022
Cover How to Use a Discursive Approach to Study Organizations
How to Use a Discursive Approach to Study Organizations
Cynthia Hardy
Discourse-based approaches to studying organizations have grown in significance over the last 25 years. This accessible and insightful book exemplifies how to use a discursive approach to study organizations. By drawing on her own empirical research, Cynthia Hardy aligns key theoretical assumptions with a range of case studies to demonstrate the value and adaptability of a discursive approach.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
28 Apr 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839106231
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Business 2022
Cover How to Lead Academic Departments Successfully
How to Lead Academic Departments Successfully
Editors:
Adam Lindgreen
,
Alan Irwin
,
Flemming Poulfelt
, and
Thyra U. Thomsen
It is an old cliché that leading and managing academics is like herding cats. This book challenges this myth and presents a way to deal with the many challenges of academic leadership, from managing departments, research groups and teams to managing tensions between research and teaching. The book is a practical and stimulating guide to different pathways to successful academic leadership, both in personal and organizational terms.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
07 Dec 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789907155
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Business 2021
Cover How to be a Reflexive Researcher
How to be a Reflexive Researcher
Paul Hibbert
This stimulating and challenging book provides a guide to reflexivity and reflexive practice, explaining its relevance to research in management, organisation studies and the social sciences. Rooted in the latest research, case studies and the author’s personal experience, the book builds a new perspective on reflexive practice involving bodily, emotional, rational and relational insights.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
05 Nov 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839101854
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Business 2021
Cover How Do I Collect Documentary Evidence?
How Do I Collect Documentary Evidence?
Bill Lee
This insightful book introduces a range of innovative strategies for collecting contemporary textual documentary evidence. Featuring insightful vignettes, it comprises a critical guide to the various challenges of collecting documents to realize each of those strategies.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
22 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839104725
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Business 2021
Cover Collaborative Inquiry for Organization Development and Change
Collaborative Inquiry for Organization Development and Change
Abraham B. Shani
and
David Coghlan
This practical book explores collaborative inquiry as an approach to research and change in organizations where internal members and external researchers work together as partners to address organizational issues and create knowledge about changing organizations.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
05 Feb 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378254
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Business 2021
Cover How Not to Write a Thesis or Dissertation
How Not to Write a Thesis or Dissertation
A Guide to Success through Failure
Mikael Sundström
If you thought a book about thesis writing would make for wearisome reading, think again! In seven entertaining and enlightening chapters, Mikael Sundström sheds light on the trials and tribulations of academic writing, offering guidance on how to become a doyen of academic disaster – and, more importantly, how to avoid that fate.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
10 Nov 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789900514
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover How to Make your Doctoral Research Relevant
How to Make your Doctoral Research Relevant
Insights and Strategies for the Modern Research Environment
Editors:
Friederike Welter
and
David Urbano
Everyone wants their research to be read and to be relevant. This exciting new guide presents a broad range of ideas for enhancing research impact and relevance. Bringing together researchers from all stages of academic life, it offers a far-reaching discussion of strategies to optimise relevancy in the modern research environment.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
01 Apr 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977616
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Business 2020
Cover How to Conduct a Practice-based Study
How to Conduct a Practice-based Study
Problems and Methods, Second Edition
Silvia Gherardi
Practice-based approaches to knowing, learning, innovating, and managing have thrived in recent years. Calling upon numerous narratives from a range of research fields, the author offers insight into the many possibilities of practice research, highlighting the inextricable links between humans and technology as the key emergent trend in management studies. Developing an innovative posthumanist approach, this novel book offers a useful and insightful compass for the navigation of practice-based studies through the lens of exemplar vignettes from internationally acclaimed researchers.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
26 Jul 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788973564
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Business 2019