Larry, Some time in 1996 I was part of a team that convened a three and a half day Open Space conference on The Future of Management and Organisation Development. The sponsor was University of Brighton, and one of the participants was Jeff Gold, at the time editor of a journal called Career Development International (ISSN: 1362-0436). He subsequently devoted an entire issue of CDI (1996, Volume 1, Number 4) to the conference proceedings, with papers written by some of the session convenors. I've just done a Google search - here's a link to the essay that I contributed ("Organizational change and large group interventions" - you need to be a CDI subscriber to access it, or pay US$15.00 plus handling charge of US$3.80): http://ninetta.emeraldinsight.com/vl=4354379/cl=85/nw=1/rpsv/~1142/v1n4/s3/p 19
I'm sorry to report that I've thrown away my file copy of the issue concerned, but here are the email addresses of two of my three organising team colleagues - still friends! - who may be able to help you: David Megginson, Professor of HRD, Sheffield Hallam University <d.f.meggin...@shu.ac.uk> Tom Bourner, Professor of Personal and Professional Development, University of Brighton <t.bour...@bton.ac.uk> The third person was Suzanne O'Hara (at the time working for University of Brighton). I hope this is helpful, and wish you success! Martin www.martinleith.com www.leithworks.com Free value creation resources ---------------- Help Please! I am putting together a list of materials about OST for the "Collaborative Research" event at the end of the month. I know there are many things I do not know about. I do know of the following unpublished Dissertations or Master's Thesis by Biver, Nancie: An Approach to Community-University Partnerships: Discoveries on the Road to America's Promise, Dixon, Elaine. "Open Space Technology: A Large-Group Approach to Whole-System Change". Norris, Richard. "A Grounded Theory Study On The Value Associated With Using Open Space Technology", Olsen, Linda. "Open Space Technology and Self-Organization: A Case Study, Walker Daniel, Marlene. An Ethnographic Study of an Open Space Technology Meeting: Self-Organization at Work. Have you written or do you know of others at the Masters or Doctoral Level? Would you send me the author, title, University, location and date? Also, do you know of any articles about OST in "refereed" journals -- academic journals? I know there have been many popular articles but I hunch not many in refereed ones that look specifically at Open Space from a "research" perspective. Again, I would like the full citation. I'll make the bibliography I'm developing available to all of you when it's ready. The results I mentioned previously on the list of the positive contribution of a change processes using "Open Space" on an Employee Survey are really quite stunning and I am writing that one up with my wife (an academic) so that will hopefully be a contribution when its done. Thanks! Larry Larry Peterson Associates in Transformation Toronto, ON, Canada 416.653.4829 la...@spiritedorg.com www.spiritedorg.com ---------------- * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html