TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Appreciative inquiry is an approach to action research that intends to create knowledge for social innovation. Such knowledge has the generative capacity to interrupt habitual practice and to create an inspiring sense of possibility that energizes novel action. How can appreciative inquiry live up to this promise? The premise of this chapter is that we need to better understand the generative qualities of inquiry in the appreciative/inquiry equation. What is the nature of inquiry that has generativity at its core? The chapter describes five distinct, yet interrelated approaches that enhance the generative process of inquiry. They depict generativity as a dynamic interplay of open-endedness and connectedness. How can the five dimensions of generativity advance appreciative inquiry as a scholarship of transformation? The last section of the chapter gives some suggestions for such possible enrichment. We need audacious forms of scholarship for the creation of a more just and sustainable global society. Appreciative inquiry as a generative process is well positioned to take on that role.
VL  - 4
SN  - 978-1-78190-330-8, 9781848554887/1475-9152
DO  - 10.1108/S1475-9152(2013)0000004002
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1475-9152(2013)0000004002
AU  - Zandee Danielle P.
PY  - 2013
Y1  - 2013/01/01
TI  - The Process of Generative Inquiry
T2  - Organizational Generativity: The Appreciative Inquiry Summit and a Scholarship of Transformation
T3  - Advances in Appreciative Inquiry
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 69
EP  - 88
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -