Changing the Family Business through Action Research
报告了大学与家族企业合作开展行动研究的案例，展示了行动研究如何帮助企业实现有意义的变化，并指出该研究方法能让研究者与实践者共同关注家族企业的根本问题，从而产生实用且基础的知识。
The qualitative research reported here is part of an ongoing, value-adding relationship between family-owned businesses and two universities: the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and the Family Business Program at the University of St. Thomas. The family business programs at both universities have gone beyond the family business forum model so prevalent today and engaged with participating family firms in facilitating actions that represent meaningful changes for the family business. This article documents some of the changes and value derived by the participating firms. It also proposes the notion that the family business field can learn from action research processes. Because action research can keep both practitioners and researchers in contact with the fundamental problems faced by family-controlled corporations, it can help create knowledge that is immensely practical and fundamental.