Relational Research and Organisation Studies

5   Polyphonic Inquiry for Team Development, Learning, and Knowledge Production

Lone Hersted and Charlotte Øland Madsen

Introduction

In the previous chapter, a dialogically based inquiry was presented that enables researchers to co-construct knowledge together with groups of managers from different organisations. In this chapter, we describe how we, as researchers, interacted with practitioners working together at an NGO as we co-constructed a polyphonic inquiry for team development, learning, and knowledge production, inspired by action research and the use of a reflecting team, originally deriving from systemic family therapy (Andersen, 1990). We were interested not only in co-creating knowledge with and in the team, but also in co-creating ...