action research
A type of research in which the researcher is also a change agent, often used in local communities or by consultants working in companies, as part of the change process itself. The research subjects are invited to participate at various stages of a relatively fast-moving sequence of research–action–research–action. There is an iterative process of investigating a problem, using
case-study
methods, loosely defined; presenting the analysis, with one or more proposed solutions, to the subjects ...