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The Application of Action Learning and Action Research in Collaborative Improvement within the Extended Manufacturing Enterprise

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Research Methodologies in Supply Chain Management

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Increasingly organizations have to identify and implement improvement initiatives in an inter-organizational context. Implementing collaborative improvement is fraught with difficulties that encompass a wide array of intra- and inter-organizational change issues and working practices. In order to overcome these difficulties, explicit attention should be paid to the accumulation and development of knowledge and to the long-term development of a capability for learning and continuous improvement between organizations. This paper describes the application of an Action Learning and Action Research approach in collaborative improvement within an Extended Manufacturing Enterprise in the Netherlands.

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  1. Department of Technology and Organisation, Faculty of Business, Public Administration, and Technology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Rick Middel Ir.

  2. School of Business Studies, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

    Dr. Louis Brennan B.E. M.Eng.Sc., MBA, M.Erg.S., Dr. David Coghlan B.A., Bacc. Theol., M.Sc., S.M., M.A. & Prof. Dr. Paul Coughlan B.E., MBA

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  1. Department of Operations Management SCM-Group, Copenhagen Business School, Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Herbert Kotzab

  2. Supply Chain Management Center, Institute of Business Adaministration, 26111, Oldenburg, Germany

    Stefan Seuring  & Martin Müller  & 

  3. Department of Production Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Nordbergstraße 15, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    Gerald Reiner

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Middel Ir., R., Brennan, L., Coghlan, D., Coughlan, P. (2005). The Application of Action Learning and Action Research in Collaborative Improvement within the Extended Manufacturing Enterprise. In: Kotzab, H., Seuring, S., Müller, M., Reiner, G. (eds) Research Methodologies in Supply Chain Management. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7908-1636-1_24

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