Handbook of Research Methods in Organizational Change

✍ Scribed by David B. Szabla (editor), David Coghlan (editor), William Pasmore (editor), Jennifer Kim (editor)

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 553
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Handbook of Research Methods in Organizational Change offers innovative and practical information to aid in the successful implementation of research methodologies. Written by a collective of experienced scholars, it provides inspiration for future academics wishing to advance research into human system changes.

Presenting traditional, modern and potential future research methods within the field of organizational change and development, the Handbook offers practical guidance on how to carry out a wide range of different research methods, from rapid response to action research. Chapters explore the methods aligned with the phenomena of organizational change, as well as the various ontologies, epistemologies, frameworks, and values that researchers of organizational change adopt. The Handbook ultimately calls for the discipline to challenge existing paradigms and rethink its approaches to advancing knowledge regarding organizational change.

This stimulating Handbook will be valuable for students and scholars of business and innovation hoping to conduct research into what transformational change on such a grand scale requires. Its expert insights will also be beneficial for scholars of interconnected disciplines such as sociology and psychology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Tables
Boxes
Contributors
Acknowledgements
PART I INTRODUCTION
1. An invitation to revitalize research into organizational change
PART II METHODS Foundational
2. Action research as the social science of change and changing
3. Conducting processual research on organisation change
4. The grounded theory methodology: over fifty years of inquiry!
5. Longitudinal research methods for studying processes of organizational change
Contemporary
6. Psychoanalytic and socioanalytic approaches to organizational change research
7. Qualimetric intervention-research as an approach to studying organizational change
8. Collaborative management research: theoretical foundations, mechanisms and practices
9. Learning history: engaging multiple perspectives for learning
10. Principles for productive inquiry into ICT-enabled change in organisations
11. Using participatory mixed methods to study “grand challenges”: an illustrative case of diversity, equity, and inclusion change research in organizations
Emerging
12. Conducting phenomenon-driven rapid-response research to explore disruption and its impact on the minority experience
13. Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry: a new paradigm for leadership and organizational change research
14. Advancing Strong Structuration Theory in organizational change research
15. Design science for organizational change: how design theory uncovers and shapes generativity logics in organizations
16. Longitudinal designs, big data, and social network analysis in organization development and change research
17. X-Ray Vision: a research tool for uncovering system psychodynamics to advance organization change
18. Applying data science in organizational change research
PART III REFLECTIONS
19. Ethical dilemmas in collaborative action research
20. Reflections on the identity journey of a budding organizational change scholar or insights on constructing a meaningful research path and life
21. Reflections on guiding doctorates in organizational change
Index