David Coghlan is Professor Emeritus and Fellow Emeritus at the Trinity Business School. University of Dublin, of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He specializes in organization development and action research and is active in both communities internationally. He has published over 160 articles and book chapters. His bestselling book, Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization (SAGE) has been through five editions, the most recent being published in April 2019. He is co-editor of the SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research (2014). Recent co-authored books include Collaborative Strategic Improvement through Network Action Learning (Edward Elgar, 2011) and Organizational Change and Strategy (2^nd ed. Routledge, 2016). He is currently on the editorial boards of: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Action Research, Action Learning: Research and Practice, Systemic Practice and Action Research, The OD Practitioner among others.

Part I: Foundations
Chapter 1: Introducing Action Research
Chapter 2: Researching Your Own Organizations
Chapter 3: Knowing in Action
Chapter 4: Understanding Action Research
Part II: Issues and Challenges in Researching Your own Organization
Chapter 5: Preunderstanding, Role Duality and Access
Chapter 6: Managing Ethics and Organizational Politics
Part III: Implementation
Chapter 7: Constructing and Selecting Your Project
Chapter 8: Designing and Implementing Your Action Research Project
Chapter 9: Using Frameworks to Study Organizations in Action
Chapter 10: Interlevel Dynamics in Action Research
Chapter 11: Writing Up Your Insider Action Research Work
Chapter 12: In Conclusion