Integral Research and Innovation: Transforming Enterprise and Society

The chapters cover issues such as: new research and university paradigms, the four innovation paths of integral research, the integral research trajectory, originating integral research, from descriptive methods to phenomenology, from phenomenology to feminism, from feminist participatory research t...

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Published in:	Online Information Review 2011, Vol.35 (3), p.507-509
Main Author:	Fourie, Ina
Format:	Review
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Action research Critical theory Empiricism Feminism Hermeneutics Innovation Innovations Integrals Methods Participatory Research Phenomenology Postmodernism Rationalism Realism Research and development Research methodology Researchers Social aspects Social Change Social innovation Social sciences Teaching Methods
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Summary:	The chapters cover issues such as: new research and university paradigms, the four innovation paths of integral research, the integral research trajectory, originating integral research, from descriptive methods to phenomenology, from phenomenology to feminism, from feminist participatory research to action research, from narratives to hermeneutics, from hermeneutics to critical theory, from critical theory to co‐operative enquiry, from methods of theorising to critical rationalism, from critical rationalism to postmodernism, from postmodernism to socio‐technical design, from experimental and survey methods to empiricism, from empiricism to critical realism, and from critical realism to action research. In their discourse the authors describe these four research perspectives or research paths through a brief discussion of the orientation of the method, key tenets of the method, a bit more detail on the method, global variations regarding the method, comments on how the method features in practice, a conclusion and some references. Some of the concluding suggestions on shifting research and innovation paradigms include: moving from individual research to research communities, from social research to integral innovation; moving from recasting method as “origination”; moving from Northern/Western domination to four‐world integration; and reconnecting the sciences and the humanities.
ISSN:	1468-4527 1468-4535