Collaborative Research in Organizations: Foundations for Learning, Change, and Theoretical Development leverages
and sustains the role of management research while increasing the theoretical development of complex organizational
and management issues. The true partnership ideal and emergent inquiry process make collaborative research complex
and difficult to organize, lead, and manage. This book addresses these needs by revisiting traditional research
ideals.
Collaborative Research in Organizations is organized in four sections. Part I, Framing the Challenge, provides
grounding in the historical context, the emergent need, and the challenges of working in the borderland between
academy and industry. Part II, Lenses and Mechanisms, presents a range of collaborative research approaches, concepts,
frameworks, and mechanisms, positioning collaborative research as something other than one of many qualitative
approaches. Part III, Illustrations, are intended to provide specific examples of collaborative research projects
in a variety of companies and industries that show how collaborative research is realized. Most of the illustrations
are based on collaborations between FENIX Program researchers at the Stockholm School of Economics and Chalmers
University of Technology and leading Swedish organizations leveraging the Scandinavia tradition of boundary-spanning
learning endeavours. Part IV, Lessons, highlights the common denominators between the different studies, addresses
some of the critiques of collaborative research, and identifies critical challenges for future inquiry.