Davydd Greenwood (born 1942) is the Goldwin Smith

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and Director of the Institute for European Studies at

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. Known

action research Action research is a philosophy and methodology of research generally applied in the social sciences. It seeks transformative change through the simultaneous process of taking action and doing research, which are linked together by critical refle ...

er, Greenwood has conducted studies in the Spanish Basque Country, where he analysed Mondragón Corporation,

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and

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s phenomena. He currently focuses on the future of

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idea, in the era of corporate culture. Greenwood was elected Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.

Publications

* Davydd Greenwood, Morten Levin (1998) ''Introduction to Action Research: Social Research for Social Change''. Thousand Oaks, California, Sage Publications, Inc * Davydd Greenwood, José Luis González (1992) ''Industrial Democracy as Process: Participatory Action Research in the Fagor Cooperative Group of Mondragón,'' (co-authors Julio Cantón Alonso, Ino Galparsoro Markaide, Alex Goiricelaya Arruza, Isabel Legarreta Nuin, and Kepa Salaberría Amesti), Assen-Maastricht, Van Gorcum Publishers.

References

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