1. The Nature of Action Research
- Author
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Alan Warmington
- Subjects
Engineering ethics ,Approaches of management ,Sociology ,Action research ,Task (project management) ,Subject matter - Abstract
I suppose my task in writing this paper is not only to outline the nature of action research but to open a discussion on how relevant the ideas of action research may be to the subject matter of the Conference. This I will attempt towards the end. I should however first make it plain that I write as a social scientist influenced particularly by the concept of the open socio-technical system first enunciated by The Tavistock Institute in U.K. At the time of writing my very limited knowledge of integrated production systems leaves me slightly doubtful how well the approaches to management problems of the systems analyst or systems engineer, and the social scientist, fit together.
- Published
- 1983