1: Engaged Scholarship in a Professional School
2: Philosophy of Science Underlying Engaged Scholarship
3: Formulating the Research Problem
4: Building a Theory
5: Process and Variance Models
6: Designing Variance Studies
7: Designing Process Studies
8: Communicating and Using Research Knowledge
9: Practicing Engaged Scholarship
Andrew H. Van de Ven is Vernon H. Heath Professor of Organizational
Innovation and Change in the Carlson School of Management of the
University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. from the University
of Wisconsin at Madison in 1972, and taught at Kent State
University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
before his present appointment. He is co-author of Group Techniques
for Program Planning (Scott Foresman, 1975), Measuring and
Assessing Organizations (Wiley, 1980), Perspectives on Organization
Design and Behavior (Wiley, 1981), and The Innovation Journey
(1999), Organizational Change and Innovation Processes: Theory and
Methods for
Research (2000), and Handbook of Organizational Change and
Innovation (2004), all by Oxford University Press. Van de Ven was
2000-2001 President of the Academy of Management and is a Fellow of
the Academy of Management.
Van de Ven provides succinct, yet philosophically informed,
summaries of alternative philosophical positions available to
researchers.
*Organization Studies*
'Andy Van de Ven is internationally renowned for doing superbly
crafted research that has made a difference in resolving societal
problems. In this book, he teaches us all how to define problems,
contribute to theory, offer resolutions, and communicate results in
ways that transform the knowledge-practice gap, making it into a
well-travelled two-way street. Experienced researchers will find
much to learn in this sophisticated guide to bridging the
knowledge-practice gap and students will make it their methodology
bible. My copy is already littered with passages marked by
underlinings, folded corners, and Post-it notes.'
*Joanne Martin, Merrill Professor of Organizational Behavior,
Emerita, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University*
'This is another profound and practical piece of scholarship from
Andrew van de Ven. He deserves credit for challenging the
limitations of much current management research and for projecting
a view of a more engaged and practical form of scholarship.'
*Andrew M. Pettigrew, Professor of Strategy and Organisation, Said
Business School, Oxford, UK*
'For decades I've admired Andy's systematic application of the
"diamond model" outlined in this book. Andy's impressive list of
accomplishments, both as a scholar and as a trainer of scholars,
speaks to why this is a long awaited field guide to what has become
known as engaged scholarship. This book is a gold mine of
practical, proven wisdom for anyone seeking to effectively bridge
the realms of theory and practice. I suspect we are witnessing the
birth of an organizational studies classic.'
*David A. Whetten, Director, Brigham Young University Faculty
Center*
Without both rigor and relevance, business schools and their
faculty will loose institutional legitimacy. Engaged Scholarship is
a call to action and clear pathway for scholars. Van de Ven
provides an insightful set of ideas where scholars can learn from
the phenomena in service of insightful research that, in turn,
affects practice. This co-production of knowledge opens up
fundamentally new way for scholars in professional schools to
conduct their research. This book is a wonderful and important
contribution.
*Michael L. Tushman, Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor
of Business Administration, Harvard Business School*
Professor Andy Van de Ven's (2007) tour de force provides a method
of engaged scholarship for studying complex social problems that
often exceed our individual skills to examine on our own. Engaged
Scholarship is a participative form of research... Van de Ven
(2007) is a landmark publication that offers potential for a
paradigm shift (Kuhn, 1970) moving from reductionism (Pfeffer,
1993) and towards theoretical and methodological pluralism. It
persuasively offers engaged scholarship as a better way than the
current status quo of creating knowledge for social science and
practice.
*Joseph T. Mahoney*
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