DIALOGUES ON WORK AND INNOVATION
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DIALOGUES ON WORK AND INNOVATION presents empirically based studies as
well as theoretical discussions on the practice of organizational renewal.
Its publications reflect the increasingly urgent need for the development
of new forms of work organization. In today's interdependent world,
workplace reform and organizational effectiveness are no longer solely the
concern of individual organizations; the local and the global have become
closely interconnected. DIALOGUES ON WORK AND INNOVATION mirrors the fact
that enterprise development and societal development cannot be kept
separate. Furthermore, the Series takes the position that the
relationship between theory and practice is basically one of dialogue, and
thus it focuses on the mutuality of knowledge and action, of research and
development. The Dialogues stress the critical significance of joint
reflexivity in action-oriented research and the necessity for
participatory processes in organizational change.
The book series DIALOGUES ON WORK AND INNOVATION is closely related to the
new journal CONCEPTS AND TRANSFORMATION.
Editor
Hans van Beinum (Halmstad University). E-mail: Hans.van_Beinum@cau.hh.se
Editorial Board
Oguz Bab|roglu (Bilkent University, Ankara) Claude Faucheux (CREDS,
Fontainebleau) Werner Fricke (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Bonn) Davydd J.
Greenwood (Cornell University) Denis Gregory (Ruskin College, Oxford) Bjvrn
Gustavsen (The National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm) Friso den
Hertog (University of Limburg) Frieder Naschold (Wissenschaftszentrum,
Berlin) Kurt Aagaard Nielsen (Roskilde University) Robert Putnam (Action
Design Associates, Natick, USA) Annemieke Roobeek (University of Amsterdam)
John Shotter (University of New Hampshire) Stephen Toulmin (University of
Southern California) Reni van der Vlist (University of Leiden)
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Public Sector Transformation
Rethinking markets and hierarchies in government
FRIEDER NASCHOLD and CASTEN VON OTTER (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin /
National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm)
State administration in modern industrialized countries is facing major
challenges to its basic institutional premises. The changing conditions of
the global economy mean that the public sector needs to develop
far-reaching strategies for innovation. A fundamental reform of the public
sector is thus one of the most urgent issues on the international agenda.
The volume examines and compares trends, issues and experiences of this
reform process in Sweden and Germany.
DIALOGUES ON WORK AND INNOVATION, 1. 1995, 185 pp
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Beyond Theory
Changing organizations through participation
Edited by STEPHEN TOULMIN and BJVRN GUSTAVSEN
(University of Southern California / National Institute for Working Life,
Stockholm)
Action Research is one of the most practical and down-to-earth ways of
doing research into working life. Beyond Theory draws on examples and
actual cases to discuss action research within the framework of the modern,
and postmodern theory of science debate. While action research has been
much criticized by the traditionalists, the book reflects a convergence
between action research and positions emerging out of the critique of
scientific traditionalism. Discussions between these two fields of
knowledge, originally so very different, can enrich both. The book will be
useful not only to researchers and academics but to anyone who is
interested in the role and use of knowledge in social and organizational
development.
CONTRIBUTIONS BY: Stephen Toulmin; Bjvrn Gustavsen; Kjell Eriksson and
Morten Hauger; Robert W. Putnam; Marianne Ekman Philips and Kerstin
Rehnstrvm; Annemieke J. Roobeek; Werner Fricke and Bernd Hofmaier; Per H.
Engelstad; Oguz N. Bab|roglu; Xyvind Pelshaugen; Thomas McCarthy; Hans van
Beinum, Claude Faucheux and Reni van der Vlist.
DIALOGUES ON WORK AND INNOVATION, 2. 1996. 242 pp.
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Concept-Driven Development and the Organization of the Process of Change.
An evaluation of the Swedish Working Life Fund.
BJVRN GUSTAVSEN, BERND HOFMAIER, MARIANNE EKMAN PHILIPS AND ANDERS WIKMAN
The Swedish Working Life Fund - a temporary organization functioning from
1990 to 1995 - distributed 10 billion Swedish crowns for workplace
development and initiated 25,000 projects. About half of the total labor
market was affected. This evaluation study describes the emergent
characteristics of organization development in Swedish enterprises and
services. The study draws on the idea of concept-driven change to develop
an infrastructure for change in organizations and society.
DIALOGUES ON WORK AND INNOVATION, 3. 1996, Pb 210 pp.
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The End of Organization Theory?
XYVIND PALSHAUGEN
With comments from BJVRN GUSTAVSEN, DAG XSTERBERG and JOHN SHOTTER (Work
Research Institute, Oslo / National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm /
University of New Hampshire)
Organizational theorists talk a lot about organizational development.
Although they can express themselves eloquently, too often the practitioner
is not convinced by their talk. The authors of The End of Organization
Theory? are in favor of the 'doers' doing most of the talking themselves.
Thus, in this book, Xyvind Pelshaugen tells the story of an action
research project in which a reorganization of the discourse between
management and workers serves as the basis for an organizational
development process. Bjvrn Gustavsen, Dag Xsterberg and John Shotter add
critical comments.
DIALOGUES ON WORK AND INNOVATION, 5. (1997, Forthcoming )
CONTACT INFORMATION
The editor of DIALOGUES ON WORK AND INNOVATION invites comments, reviews
and contributions, which may be submitted to:
Prof. Hans van Beinum
E-Mail: Hans.van_Beinum@cau.hh.se
Tel. +46 (0)35 167357 Fax. +46 (0)35 128175
Centre for Working Life Research and Development
Halmstad University, Box 823
S 301-18 Halmstad, Sweden.
The books in the series DIALOGUES ON WORK AND INNOVATION (ISSN: 1384-6671)
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