ABSTRACT

The story of action learning in the Business Faculty of the University of Brighton started with a restructuring of the university in 1987 that shifted departments between faculties. As a result, the Business Faculty became the largest of the university’s faculties but, paradoxically, it had the smallest number of research degree students. This created a discomfort in the faculty that prompted a desire to develop a research degree programme in the field of business management that was distinct from the more general research degree programme of the university as a whole.