Highlights include a reflection on forty years of collaboration and provides an inside perspective on collegial partnerships; the first recipients of the Pasmore-Woodman Award (AOM 2015) consider personal recollections as well as general principles about successful academic partnerships; one of the first women in the field provides a perspective on the interdependence of research and practice through a gender lens; while reflecting on the role of women in ODC across a fifty-year time period; strategies for managing changes in the research question when conducting field-based action research...

This volume provides new conceptual insights to helporganizations improve health and wellbeing in society. Some chaptersdo this by addressing macro-level change, some by highlighting evidence-basedchange at the micro level, and others by extending theory and integratingperspectives that heretofore have remained separate.