the rycroft-malone paper states that co-production relies on ‘authentic’ collaboration as a context for action. our commentary supports and extends this assertion. we suggest that ‘authentic’ co-production involves processes where participants can ‘see’ the difference that they have made within the project and beyond. we provide examples including: the use of design in health projects which see...

Background and Objective: Co-authorship on writing articles is one of the indicators of reliability in scientific articles. Due to the lack of information regarding to the rate of participation of the authors of articles in the ” Iranian Journal of Pathology” this research with the aim of the survey of collaborative coefficients of article authors in this Journal  from 2006 to 2012 was performe...

The BSCW system is a Web based groupware tool for asynchronous and synchronous cooperation. We describe the system and the experiences we made with it serving as the backbone of a virtual learning environment for students. The field study took place in summer 1998. It demonstrated the usefulness of the system for students and teachers as well as the need for further research and socio-technical...

In this article, Engaged Scholarship is disentangled from a cocreation and boundary practice perspective. The focus is on the attached inside researcher in collaborative basic research and action research project. Within the information systems discipline the intersection between collaborative basic research and action research is not that well explored. An extra interest has been on the transf...

This study examines the setting of canonical action research in an integrative action process within Learning by Developing (LbD) culture. The evaluation phases of this action research are based on the evaluation transactions of the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council (FINHEEC) and furthermore the canonical evaluation to the research is produced. Canonical is defined as “exactness” or “...

To coincide with the first annual Action Research conference taking place in London this week, this article promotes the idea of using action research for health care exploration and change. It also introduces the work of the Healthcare Subgroup of the Collaborative Action Research Network, the group's aims and how practitioners can make contact and be involved with the development. The article...