Idea Work combines approaches from action research and experiential learning with the focus on positive deviance in appreciative inquiry and Positive Organizational Scholarship.
We do research together with our partners. We believe reflective practitioners are valuable co-creators of theory and that researchers have responsibilities for creating theories that have an impact on local practices, the languages of local practices and the realms of possibilities for action and becoming that people see in their work.
Our research is informed by three sets of literature:
- A recently strengthened stream of research that has an explicit focus on creativity as inherent in everyday work.
- Contributions from the practice based approaches within organisation studies and anthropology. What do people in organizations actually do when doing idea work?
- A set of literatures dealing with sources of energy, meaning and positive identity construction that enable and emanate from idea work. What are the motivational drivers of idea work? What energizes people doing idea work?