Collaborative Inquiry for Change and Changing: Advances in Science-Practice Transformations

Abstract

The overall context of this special issue is that in this volatile, unpredictable, complex, and ambiguous contemporary world, collaboration between researchers of different disciplines, between researchers and practitioners, and between institutions is imperative. This special issue presents seven papers with different approaches to collaborative inquiry. Each one provides a perspective of the way collaborative inquiry can address multilevel, multistakeholder, and longitudinal change in the current dynamic and constantly changing environment in which organizations reside. Taken together, the contributions in this volume make a powerful statement concerning the emerging significance of the collaborative inquiry paradigm and its potential future.