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Working within organizational cycles - A more suitable way to manage action research projects in large organizations?
This article proposes that action research projects in a large business context may need to fit within organizational funding and political cycles. It outlines some of the problems that may occur in attempting to implement an action research project in a large organization. It gives a case study of such a project that aimed to introduce a systemic human resource strategy to bring about organizational cultural change. Part way through the completion of the project the cycle changed, funds were cut, and the project was abolished, although significant portions of it had been implemented and other parts were later reestablished. The article establishes a link to punctuated equilibrium theory in exploring the political and funding cycles that influenced the decision to cut funding. It considers whether this could have been foreseen, and gives some recommendations for future action research projects.
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Systemic Practice and Action ResearchVolume
15Issue
6Pagination
465 - 484Publisher DOI
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1094-429XPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
2002, Springer VerlagUsage metrics
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