pt. I. What is the nature of organisational knowledge? 1. Learning organisations and the responsibility of managers -- Learning about learning / Jimmy Ryan. 2. Learning organisations as good societies -- Journeyman / Seamus Lillis. 3. Action research, power and control -- Collaboration for co-liberation: a story of intentional intervention / Pip Bruce Ferguson -- pt. II. How is organisational knowledge acquired? 4. Doing research. 5. Empirical research -- Rehabilitating sexual offenders in religious communities / Paul Murphy. 6. Interpretive research -- Understanding my work as a group leader in employment counselling / Breda Long. 7. Critical theoretic research -- Courage to risk, courage to be free / Eileen Ross. 8. Action research -- pt. III. How is organisational knowledge put to use? 9. Action research in organisations. 10. New theories of organisation -- pt. IV. What are the implications of living theories of organisation for social living? 11. What should be the focus of management education? Action research and the production of working knowledge / John Garrick. Dialogue, learning and management education / Carl Rhodes. Enquiry in action in business education? / John H.M. Ellis and Julia A. Kiely. What should be the focus of management education? / Liam Nagle. What should be the focus of management education? / Chris James. 12. My epistemology of practice of the superintendency / Jacqueline Delong. 13. How one school is fulfilling the vision of Peter Senge's 'learning organisation' / Carmel Lillis -- Epilogue: reconciliations.