Contents: Benedicte Brøgger/Olav Eikeland: Introduction – Olav Eikeland: Habitus-Validity in Organisational Theory and Research - Social Research and Work Life Transformed – Lars Klemsdal: Making Sense of Managerial Reforms through Action Research – Benedicte Brøgger: Research and Change - a Comparison of Action Research and Conventional Social Science Research Methods – Jarle Hildrum/Siw M. Fosstenløkken: The Action Researcher as Change Agent: On Dialogue Facilitation and Network Collaboration – Marie-José Avenier: A Methodological Framework for Constructing Generic Knowledge with Intended Value both for Academia and Practice – Rickie Moore/Michel Peron: On the Axiology and Actionability of Knowledge Creation: About Organizations In Management Science Research – Lucia Alcántara: Creating Practical and Operational Knowledge from Action Inquiry Technologies – David Coghlan/Aoife McDermott: Creating Value for Scholars and Practitioners: Lessons from Organisation Development through Action Research and the Processual Approach – Øyvind Pålshaugen: The Stalemate of Organization Theory: Ever New Frameworks, Never New Methods - May Actor-Network Theory provide an Exception to this Rule? – Trine Deichman-Sørensen: Boundary Learning - Work complexities and reflexive practice in action research.