Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- The contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A book of evolutions -- New theories of discourse -- The second cognitive revolution -- Management learning -- Accounting for my own learning -- Why am I writing this book, and why are you reading it? -- Prologue: contextualising the study -- What is the nature of organisational knowledge? -- Learning organisations and the responsibility of managers -- Learning organisations as good societies -- Journeyman SAMUS LILLIS -- Action research, power and control -- Collaboration for co-liberation: a story of intentional intervention PIP BRUCE FERGUSON -- How is organisational knowledge acquired? -- Doing research -- Empirical research -- Rehabilitating sexual offenders in religious communities PAUL MURPHY -- Interpretive research -- Critical theoretic research -- Action research -- How is organisational knowledge put to use? -- Action research in organisations -- New theories of organisation -- What are the implications of living theories of organisation for social living? -- What should be the focus of management education? -- My epistemology of practice of the superintendency JACQUELINE DELONG -- How one school is fulfilling the vision of Peter Senge's 'learning organisation' CARMEL LILLIS -- Epilogue: reconciliations -- References -- Index.