ABSTRACT
This chapter will point out how interventionist research can have long-term implications within the target organisations, and hence can impact society aside from producing scientific output. Universities are often seen as important institutions in diffusing new technological and management innovations into the local economy, and interventionist research provides one way to enhance such knowledge diffusion. This chapter describes a case study focusing on quality costs and also the cost implications of sourcing, specifically from low-cost countries. This interventionist research process did not actually start until 2006 though the researchers had been in close collaboration with the case company’s top management already since early 2000.
