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Action research and development coalitions in health care

Marianne Ekman Philips

Swedish National Institute for Working Life, marianne.ekman.philips{at}arbetslivsinstitutet.se

Action research within the field of work and organization has, for several decades, struggled with the problem of concentrating its efforts on a few workplaces versus distributing them on many. The Swedish programme ‘Work environment in health care’ was an effort to reach out broadly in this sector of working life, although with limited resources. The article presents and discusses an approach based on using dialogically structured encounters to support a number of local developments at the same time as an effort was made to turn these encounters into a permanent infrastructure for development.

Key Words: action research • development coalitions • dialogue/democratic dialogue • health care • network/networking • organization development • regional clustering

Action Research, Vol. 2, No. 4, 349-370 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1476750304047980
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