Bücher der Reihe Advances in Appreciative Inquiry

Appreciative Inquiry has touched and affected the life of thousands who apply its principles in a wide range of settings including industry, government and not-for-profit organizations. This book revolves around three main themes: we live in worlds our questions create, appreciative discourse and narrative, and the design of inquiring systems.

Advocates an organizational science that focuses on advancing a scholarship of positive human organizations, positive relationships and positive modalities of change, which promise to be of world benefit for individuals, organizations and communities. This title aims to advance a 'scholarship of the positive' and 'positive scholarship'.

This volume on positive design, appreciative intelligence and social innovation and social entrepreneurship for sustainable value. It takes a generative approach, building on positive design principles inherent in the appreciative inquiry methodology and proposes moving from sustainable development to sustainable value.

This volume aims to solicit new tools and insights for expanding state-of-the-art applications of Appreciative Inquiry. It revolves around three fundamental aspects of organizational generativity, namely: generative knowledge and organizational life, collective action and the appreciative inquiry summit, and sustainable inter-generative dynamics.