Abstract
Design / methodology: This article aims to synthesise Participatory Action Research literature, particularly CUAR, with literature on social enterprise and democracy to demonstrate how the two approaches might fruitfully be combined.
Findings: We show how CUAR might be utilised by researchers, to articulate new social enterprise organizational responses to local problems; or to reinvigorate democracy within existing social enterprises.
Originality / Value: This exploratory work marks (we believe) the first attempt to bring together social enterprise and CUAR.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Social Enterprise Journal |
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| Publication status | Published - 3 Oct 2019 |
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Keywords
- Action Research
- social enterprise
- normativity
- participatory democracy
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Action research and participatory democracy in social enterprise. / Gleerup, Janne; Hulgard, Lars; Teasdale, Simon.
In: Social Enterprise Journal, 03.10.2019.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Action research and participatory democracy in social enterprise
AU - Gleerup, Janne
AU - Hulgard, Lars
AU - Teasdale, Simon
N1 - Acceptance in SAN AAM: no embargo (upon publication) - compliant > not yet published: holding embargo applied 9/8/19 DC ^Removed temp holding embargo for Pure migration ET 5-9-19
PY - 2019/10/3
Y1 - 2019/10/3
N2 - Purpose: The purpose of this article is to introduce the reader to the Nordic tradition of Critical Utopian Action Research (CUAR) and to demonstrate how CUAR might reinvigorate participatory democracy as an intrinsic characteristic of social enterprise. This leads us to sketch out the beginnings of how researchers might work with communities to help realise their democratic impulses through social enterprise.Design / methodology: This article aims to synthesise Participatory Action Research literature, particularly CUAR, with literature on social enterprise and democracy to demonstrate how the two approaches might fruitfully be combined.Findings: We show how CUAR might be utilised by researchers, to articulate new social enterprise organizational responses to local problems; or to reinvigorate democracy within existing social enterprises.Originality / Value: This exploratory work marks (we believe) the first attempt to bring together social enterprise and CUAR.
AB - Purpose: The purpose of this article is to introduce the reader to the Nordic tradition of Critical Utopian Action Research (CUAR) and to demonstrate how CUAR might reinvigorate participatory democracy as an intrinsic characteristic of social enterprise. This leads us to sketch out the beginnings of how researchers might work with communities to help realise their democratic impulses through social enterprise.Design / methodology: This article aims to synthesise Participatory Action Research literature, particularly CUAR, with literature on social enterprise and democracy to demonstrate how the two approaches might fruitfully be combined.Findings: We show how CUAR might be utilised by researchers, to articulate new social enterprise organizational responses to local problems; or to reinvigorate democracy within existing social enterprises.Originality / Value: This exploratory work marks (we believe) the first attempt to bring together social enterprise and CUAR.
KW - Action Research
KW - social enterprise
KW - normativity
KW - participatory democracy
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