Designing plans for organizational development, lessons from three large-scale SME-initiatives
Tinne Lommelen, Friso den Hertog, Lien Beck & Raf Sluismans
#2009-027
This paper reflects upon the way that we balanced design and development
in three specific case projects in order to contribute to creating and
accumulating knowledge that is both relevant to practitioners and
academics. More specifically, it is shown how learning within one
project was used to improve the design of the next project. The three
projects were set up in the context of government-sponsored social
science programs and aimed at improving innovation in SMEs. As the paper
shows, looking at these three projects shows the contribution from
seeing design and development as two sides of the same coin.
Keywords design-oriented research, organizational development,
large-scale projects (JEL M10)
UNU-MERIT Working Papers
ISSN 1871-9872