Leading organizational transformation: an action research study

IT Governance and Organizational Transformation: Findings From an Action Research Study

IT Governance is supposed to ensure the value contribution of an organization’s IT to its overall business strategy. Due to various contingency factors, such as organizational structure or company size, models for IT Governance cannot be off-theshelf solutions, but have to be designed for each company individually. While there have been numerous scientific contributions dealing with the way and...

An Introduction to Action Research

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره 18، تیر 1398، 323-324             مقدمه‌ای بر پژوهش عملیاتی   An Introduction to Action Research     محسن رضائیان[1]   M.Rezaeian   کرت لوین (1947-1890) Kurt Lewin را بنیانگذار پژوهش عملیاتی Action Research می‌دانند. کاربردی که وی از پژوهش عملیاتی در نظر داشت عبارت بود از: پاسخ‌گویی به یک مسأله اجتماعی که با مشارکت فعا...

An Umbrella Named Action Research

Action research is a means for creating meaning and promoting understanding of complex social situations, and improving the quality of human interactions and performance in those situations. Action research is one of the words that can be heard now frequently in the educational cycle, but there are several definitions for it. Literature review shows that several writers have referred to this co...

Envisioning and Leading Organizational Transformation: One Organ Procurement Organization's Journey

BACKGROUND  In 2012, one organ procurement organization (OPO) welcomed a new President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). This OPO, LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma (LifeShare), had just celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011. While LifeShare was well-established chronologically, growth in organ donors and organs transplanted from these donors had occurred at a much slower rate ...

Blended learning : an interpretive action research study