Browsing Articles - School of Engineering, ATU Galway City by Subject "Action research"

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Implementing an innovation project in an Irish multi-national subsidiary: A dialogical action research study

Costello, Gabriel J.; Donnellan, Brian; Conboy, Kieran (2013-12-01)

This paper presents an action research (AR) study based in APC by Schneider Electric, formerly APC Ireland, an Irish subsidiary of the Schneider Electric Corporation. The two-year study was carried out during a time of ...
The role of the supply chain in the elimination and reduction of construction rework and defects: an action research approach

Taggart, Martin; Koskela, Lauri; Rooke, John (Taylor & Francis, 2014)

Since 2007, Ireland has suffered a circa 80% reduction in construction output. This has resulted in bankruptcy, unemployment and bad debt. Contractors have attached greater emphasis to production efficiency and cost reduction ...