Beyond Theory

1. Preface; 2. Introduction; 3. 1. Development and the Social Sciences: An uneasy relationship (by Gustavsen, Bjorn); 4. 2. Workplace Development and Research: Two examples (by Eriksson, Kjell); 5. 3. Creating Reflective Dialogue (by Putnam, Robert W.); 6. 4. Workplace development, Gender and Communicative Competence (by Ekman Philips, Marianne); 7. 5. Strategic Management from the Bottom Up: The start of a process of managerial, organizational and institutional change (by Roobeek, Annemieke J.M.); 8. 6. Action Research and Regional Development (by Fricke, Werner); 9. 7. The Development Organization as Communicative Instumentation: Experiences from the Karlstad program (by Engelstad, Per H.); 10. 8. Searching for a Program in National Participation: An action research experiment in Turkey (by Baburoglu, Oguz N.); 11. 9. 'This is Not the Whole Story...': On the demand for scientific reports of action research (by Palshaugen, Oyvind); 12. 10. Pragmatizing Communicative Reason (by McCarthy, Thomas); 13. 11. Reflections on the Epigenetics Significance of Action Research (by Beinum, Hans van); 14. 12. Concluding Methodological Reflections: Elitism and democracy among the sciences (by Toulmin, Stephen); 15. About the Authors; 16. Index