Davydd Greenwood is the Goldwin Smith Professor

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 of Anthropology

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 and Director of the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University

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.

Known action researcher

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, Greenwood has conducted studies in the Spanish Basque Country

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, where he analysed Mondragón Corporation, empowerment

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 and cooperative

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s phenomena. He currently focuses on the future of university

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 idea, in the era of corporate culture.

Greenwood was elected Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.

Publications

• Davydd Greenwood, Morten Levin
  Morten Levin
  Morten Levin is a Norwegian sociologist and Professor of Organization and Work Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology . He has formerly been a Research Director at SINTEF and has worked for the Royal Norwegian Defense Research Establishment and universities throughout...
  
  (1998) Introduction to Action Research: Social Research for Social Change. Thousand Oaks, California, Sage Publications, Inc
• Davydd Greenwood, José Luis González (1992) Industrial Democracy as Process: Participatory Action Research in the Fagor Cooperative Group of Mondragón, (co-authors Julio Cantón Alonso, Ino Galparsoro Markaide, Alex Goiricelaya Arruza, Isabel Legarreta Nuin, and Kepa Salaberría Amesti), Assen-Maastricht, Van Gorcum Publishers.