Editorial
Ten Volumes of Dialogue
Abstract
“Why a European Journal of Workplace Innovation?” this was the question posed in the journal’s first editorial. The answer offered was both practical and conceptual: to create a space where different traditions of research and practice could meet. Since then, the European Journal of Workplace Innovation has published seventeen issues across ten volumes. Hosted by the University of Agder, it has remained committed to that original purpose: to contribute to knowledge “that unfolds within some kind of totality, a totality that no research
approach can claim to fully overview” (Pålshaugen, 2015, p. 10). This editorial vision has also consistently emphasised pluralism over orthodoxy, aiming “not to impose a particular view or model,” but rather to offer “an arena where a number of previously separate discourses can meet” (Ennals, 2016, p. 4).
The journal’s second decade begins as the first did; with questions, not answers. In this volume, these reflections are complemented by a special editorial by Professor Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen, Managing Editor of the journal. His view offers a perspective on the journal’s trajectory and future avenues.
This tenth volume of the European Journal of Workplace Innovation presents seven contributions. They address different domains of practice, reflect varied research strategies, and emerge from distinct institutional and national contexts. Parts of these contributions were first presented at the EUWIN conference The Future of Workplace Innovation, held in Donostia-San Sebastián (Spain) in October 2024.
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