Some reflections on the epistemological fundaments of an Italian action-research experience

Garibaldo, Francesco; Rebecchi, Emilio

doi:10.1007/s00146-003-0273-y

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“…Yet surprisingly few studies explore the managerial challenges and governance principles of teams moving beyond a hierarchical preconception of the organization, and keep treating teams as rather static organizational forms or entities (e.g. Keller, 2001; Kuipers & de Witte, 2005) instead of studying them as developed by both endogenous and exogenous relations (exceptions are Garibaldo & Rebecchi, 2004; Vallas, 2003). In contrast, the intra- and inter-relational dynamics of team communities form our focal point.…”

Section: Studying Teams As Co-creative Economic Actorsmentioning

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Taking Teams Seriously in the Co-creation of Firms and Economic Agency

Kristensen

Lotz

2011

Organization Studies

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In this paper it is suggested that it is time to take the agency of teams seriously. Whereas the debate has previously focused on how firms may function more effectively by using team-based work organization, our aim here is to discuss and understand how teams affect the evolutionary dynamic of companies. Fieldwork in four Danish manufacturing companies helped us discover that firms as ‘communities of teams’ are highly dynamic entities with complex layers of different team forms that operate, innovate and improve by constantly recombining, collaborating across organizational divisions and redistributing authority, thereby challenging some of the existing ‘idioms’ of team research and theories of the firm. Building on these findings, we rethink research on teams by re-describing the evolutionary dynamics of firms and call for new comparative research.

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Section: Studying Teams As Co-creative Economic Actorsmentioning

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Taking Teams Seriously in the Co-creation of Firms and Economic Agency

Kristensen

Lotz

2011

Organization Studies

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“…The space of a group, placed in a given context, is not a space in which to implement a project of change, but a space which allows for the study of complex and changing realities and provides the opportunity to analyse in which direction the changes are driving the institution and the individuals concerned. Observation by a discussion group can thus be conceived as an effective means of studying how the participants, the breakdowns in communication, the emotions that permeate the experience, and so on, are interrelated and of proposing hypotheses by analysing the dynamics that provoke the breakdowns (Garibaldo and Rebecchi, 2004).…”

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Employee-driven innovation in the context of Italian industrial relations: the case of a public hospital

Telljohann

2010

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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This article looks at the role of various forms of participation in experiences of employee-driven innovation in Italy. On the one hand, it analyses the extent to which forms of direct and representative participation have fostered processes of organizational innovation driven by the knowledge and creativity of employees. On the other hand, the article identifies the specific limits of these forms of employee involvement in processes of organizational innovation. Innovative experiences of employee involvement will be presented on the basis of a case study. The new approach to employee involvement applied in the analysed case provides indications for reflection on the innovation of the Italian system for the representation and participation of employees. The study shows that by integrating and coordinating various forms of participation, employees' knowledge and creativity can be used more effectively in the context of organizational innovation processes.

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Action research through a European perspective?based on Scandinavian and Italian traditions

Rasmussen

Garibaldo

2004

AI & Society

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Some reflections on the epistemological fundaments of an Italian action-research experience

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

Taking Teams Seriously in the Co-creation of Firms and Economic Agency

Taking Teams Seriously in the Co-creation of Firms and Economic Agency

Employee-driven innovation in the context of Italian industrial relations: the case of a public hospital

Action research through a European perspective?based on Scandinavian and Italian traditions

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