Designing information and organizations with a positive lens / edited by Michel Avital, Richard J. Boland and David L. Cooperrider.

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Appreciative Inquiry has touched and affected the life of thousands who apply its principles in a wide range of settings including industry, government, spiritual and not-for-profit organizations. The "Advances in Appreciative Inquiry" series 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. The book series is dedicated to building such a discipline through the advancement of Appreciative Inquiry as an approach to organizational inquiry and human development, and through the interdisciplinary articulation of non-deficit theories of positive change processes in human systems. Guided by the ethos of Appreciative Inquiry, the book series supports a relentless inquiry into the true, the good, the better and the possible. It is dedicated to advancing a 'scholarship of the positive' and 'positive scholarship'. The book series aims to facilitate an emergent dialogue within the social sciences and to support innovative and challenging work.

Managing as designing with a positive lens / Michel Avital, Richard J. Boland -- Design for sustainable value: a whole system approach / Chris Laszlo, David L. Cooperrider -- Managing as designing needs a theory of design / Jurgen Faust -- Toward a positive design theory: Principles for designing motivating information and communication technology / Ping Zhang -- Creating a new leverage point for information systems development / Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn, Marita Holst, Anna Ståhlbröst -- Four phases of the design revolution: expanding the design domain and developing design theory / Dong-Sung Cho -- The poetics of organizational design: how words may inspire worlds / Danielle P. Zandee -- Designing for positive outcomes: using positive memes, distributive empowerment, open source development, and positive metaphors / Julie E. Kendall, Kenneth E. Kendall -- A model for rethinking the current vocabulary of design / Wendy Jansen, Rombout van den Nieuwenhof -- Beyond Words / Will Rifkin -- The arts and leadership: now that we can do anything, what will we do? / Nancy J. Adler -- Developing the positive organization from a secure base / Eric H. Neilsen -- Designing safety into high-risk/high-stress environments: positive innovation for patient handoffs / Bernard J. Mohr, Michael J. Feinson, Nancy Shendell-Falik -- A positive movement forward: Carris companies employee-governance / Cecile G. Betit -- The power of a positive lens in peace building and development / Malcolm J. Odell, Bernard J. Mohr -- Designing organizations as if life matters: principles of appreciative organizing / Diana Whitney.

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