Table of contents
Prefacevii
Introduction1
1. Development and the Social Sciences: An uneasy relationship5
2. Workplace Development and Research: Two examples31
3. Creating Reflective Dialogue41
4. Workplace development, Gender and Communicative Competence53
5. Strategic Management from the Bottom Up: The start of a process of managerial, organizational and
institutional change67
6. Action Research and Regional Development83
7. The Development Organization as Communicative Instumentation: Experiences from the Karlstad
program89
8. Searching for a Program in National Participation: An action research experiment in Turkey119
9. ‘This is Not the Whole Story…’: On the demand for scientific reports of action
research137
10. Pragmatizing Communicative Reason159
11. Reflections on the Epigenetics Significance of Action Research179
12. Concluding Methodological Reflections: Élitism and democracy among the sciences203
About the Authors227
Index231
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