Work Organization and Europe as a Development Coalition

Ennals, Richard; Gustavsen, Bjørn

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“…Thus local unions, local chambers of commerce, local venture capital, local education bodies, local research centers and local states may enter into arrangements to regenerate the local economy. (Jessop 1994: 272) This is a precise description of what we in this article, along with Ennals and Gustavsen (1999a), have called regional development coalitions, and which we regard as being of strategic importance for the formation of learning regions. Thus, from a Scandinavian point of view public-private partnerships, as an example of de-statization of politics, does contain some potential progressive elements of a policy of job-generating growth in Europe, and could, consequently, rather be said to represent a continuity of 'modernizing' socialdemocratic welfare states than the discontinuity of being a basic element of a Schumpeterian workfare state (Amin and Thomas 1996;Hernes 1978;Jessop 1994).…”

Section: Agglomeration and Localized Learningmentioning

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“…In the promotion of such innovation-supportive regions, the interlinking of cooperative partnerships ranging from work organizations inside firms via interfirm networks to different actors of the community, understood as 'regional development coalitions' , will be of strategic importance. The concept of a 'development coalition' signifies a bottom-up, horizontally based co-operation between different actors in a local or regional setting, based on a socially broad mobilization and participation of human agency (Ennals and Gustavsen 1999a). The attractiveness of the concept of learning regions to planners and politicians is found in the fact that it simultaneously promises both economic growth and job generation, as well as social cohesion.…”

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Learning regions as development coalitions

Asheim

2001

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The understanding of post-Fordist societies as learning economies, in which learning organizations such as learning firms and learning regions play a strategic role, has lately received some criticism. The critique has partly pointed at the structural limits to learning in a capitalist global economy, and partly argued that firms in capitalist societies have always been learning, referring especially to the role of innovation in inter-firm competition. Against the critics, it is argued that the learning region has great potential, both as a theoretical and normative concept and as a practical metaphor for formulating regional policy.

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Learning regions as development coalitions

Asheim

2001

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“…The concept of 'development organisation' was re-baptised 'development coalition' and expanded in order to accommodate to this changed context (cf. Ennals and Gustavsen 1999). In this perspective, it comes as an unexplained surprise that Gustavsen et al (2010) do not mention the concept or distinction at all after more than 20 years of R&D where they have played a most prominent role (cf.…”

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Action research and organisational learning: a Norwegian approach to doing action research in complex organisations

Eikeland

2012

Educational Action Research

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The purpose of this article is to present a specific approach to the practice of action research 'in complex organisations'. Clearly, there are many approaches to the challenge of doing action research in organisations; approaches that are, and also must be, quite context dependent and specific. But my purpose is neither to give an overview nor a recommendation of how action research is or should be done in complex organisations by different schools of action researchers around the world. The approach I will present has grown through practical experience accumulated over many years with doing action research in many different Norwegian organisations with organisational change and development as the specific objective. I will limit myself to an outline of this Norwegian context, and to how I and others have worked specifically with organisational learning both practically and theoretically within or in relation to a broad Norwegian or Scandinavian approach to action research and organisation development represented by many individuals. 1

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“…It should also be linked to a new set of industrial rights, based more profoundly on individual interests. By embracing such a strategic approach, regional alliances could become regional development coalitions (Ennals and Gustavsen 1999), capable of combining the necessity of industrial restructuring with the capability to defend the well-being of all those people whose quality of life depends more than ever on the quality of their employment. In this sense, trade union regionalism would really enable a policy of social re-embedding of economic activities.…”

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The “New Economy”

Dörre¹,

Beese²,

Röttger³

2002

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The article discusses industrial political activities conducted in regional networks by German trade unions. Referring to the example of Dortmund it is shown that the industrial political strategies of local trade union sections are currently at a watershed. On the one hand, trade unions prove capable of socially compensating for the consequences of a radical structural change. On the other hand, however, they have great difficulties in gaining a foothold in the newly emerging economic sectors. 'Action research' will help the trade unions to develop adequate strategies for the new economic sectors.

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Work Organization and Europe as a Development Coalition

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Learning regions as development coalitions

Learning regions as development coalitions

Action research and organisational learning: a Norwegian approach to doing action research in complex organisations

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