Collaborative Research in Organizations leverages and sustains the role of management research while increasing the theoretical development of complex organizational and management issues. The true partnership ideal and emergent inquiry process make collaborative research complex and difficult to organize, lead and manage. This book addresses these needs by revisiting traditional research ideals.

Collaborative Research in Organizations is organized in four sections. Part I, Framing the Challenge, provides grounding in the historical context, the emergent need, and the challenges of working in the borderland between academy and industry. Part II, Lenses and Mechanisms, presents a range of collaborative research approaches, concepts, frameworks, and mechanisms, positioning collaborative research as something other than one of many qualitative approaches. Part III, Illustrations, are intended to provide specific examples of collaborative research projects in a variety of companies and industries that show how collaborative research is realized. Part IV, Lessons, highlights the common denominators between the different studies, addresses some of the critiques of collaborative research, and identifies critical challenges for future inquiry.

Niclas Adler, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden and, Director of the Fenix Program. He is a former Executive Director of the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship and board member in seven technology-based and venture capital companies. His most recent work has focused on business creation and renewal in established structures, alternative approaches in organizing complex product development and, action research methodologies in the pursuit of actionable knowledge creation. He is the author of numerous journal articles.

Foreword I - Andrew Pettigrew, Professor, Associate Dean, Research, Warwick Business School
Foreword II - Hans-Olov Olsson, CEO, Volvo Car Corporation.
Part 1 Framing the Challenge
1. Rebuilding Management: A Historical Perspective - Armand Hatchuel, Hans Glise
2. Researching our Way to Economic Decline - Ken Starkey and Susan Tempest/ Nottingham University Business School
3. Traveling in the Borderland of Academy and Industry - Bengt Stymne/StockholmSchool of Economics
4. Collaborative Research: Strategic Intents and Actual Practices - Niclas Adler and Flemming Norrgren/Chalmers University of Technology
· Academic commentary - David Knights/Keele University
· Executive commentary - Mikael Dohlsten/Astra Zeneca
Part 2 Collaborative Research: Some Lenses and Mechanisms
5. Collaborative Research: Alternative Roadmaps - A.B. (Rami) Shani and Corey Willson/California Polytechnic State University; Albert David/Ecoles des Mines de Paris;
6. Collaborative Research through an Executive Ph.D. Program - Sven Kylén and Flemming Norrgren/Chalmers University of Technology; Bengt Stymne/StockholmSchool of Economics
7. The Dual Role of the Insider Action Researcher - Jonas Roth/AstraZeneca R&D; Robert Sandberg and Charlotta Svensson /FENIX
8. Jam Sessions for Collaborative Management Research - Hans Björkman and Tobias Johansson/FENIX
9. Structural Learning Mechanisms in Collaborative Research - Michael Stebbins/California Polytechnic State University; Judy L. Valenzuela/Kaiser Permanente
· Academic commentary - William Pasmore, Professor, Case Western Reserve University & Delta Group
· Executive commentary - Per-Olof Nyquist, Vice President, Head of Ericsson University
Part 3 Illustrations: Realizing Collaborative Research
10. Rethinking and Transforming Product Development - Jon Mikaelsson/Chalmers University of Technology; A.B. (Rami) Shani/California Polytechnic State University
11. Knowledge Facilitation in Action - Jonas Roth and Lena Berg/ AstraZeneca R&D
12. User Involvement and Experimentation in Collaborative Research - Peter Magnusson/FENIX
13. Managing Organizational Creativity - Mats Sundgren and Alexander Styhre/Chalmers University of Technology
14. The Cheetah Strategy - Saving Projects in Crisis - Mats Engwall and Charlotta Svensson/FENIX
15. Service Innovation - A Collaborative Approach - Hans Björkman/FENIX
16. The Collaborative Development of Leader at Site - Sven Kylén, Jan Wickenberg, and Mats Sundgren/Chalmers University of Technology
17. Product Innovation in a Solutions Business - Robert Sandberg and Andreas Werr/FENIX
18. Self-Designing a Performance Management System - Allan M. Mohrman and Susan Albers Mohrman/University of Southern California
· Academic commentary - Anne Huff, Professor, Director, AIM, London Business School
· Executive commentary - Lars Rebien Sörensen, CEO, Novo Nordisk
Part 4 Collaborative Research in Organizations: Lessons and Challenges - Niclas Adler/Stockholm School of Economics; A. B. (Rami) Shani/California Polytechnic State University; Alexander Styhre/Chalmers University of Technology
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors