Master in Action Research and Transformation

The world has been going through a great change and transformation process where companies and institutions face game-changing challenges. Opportunities such as the internet and social media that facilitate communication and cooperation, artificial intelligence technologies, virtual reality, traveling in space, and threats such as climate change, food crises, and pandemics push individuals and organizations to find agile and innovative solutions. These changes and transformations require a more holistic, participatory, egalitarian, sustainable collaboration, and knowledge generation approach.

mART aims to train leaders who can effectively manage the change and transformation processes that will inevitably be faced in the upcoming period. As a core competency, the program aims to assist leaders in developing their ability to co-generate knowledge, make decisions, do business and find solutions, create a common interest formula, develop a cooperation advantage, establish and manage teams, and establish and manage decentralized and co-managed structures.

mART, whose mission is defined as 'Contributing to social and institutional transformation by feeding from different disciplines', aims to meet the increasing number of transformational needs in the business world by considering action research as a transformation management tool. These transformations need new knowledge and a new type of leadership. These leaders need to construct change tools and mechanisms, along with producing vision, meaning and purpose. AR approaches and methods respond to this need.

Within the framework of the program, participants will create and conduct an action research project on organizational development/transformation in their home company or in another company and will write an article about the project. The project will be carried out in an integrated manner with all courses. This will enable participants to gain hands-on experience in solving real organizational challenges.

The program will enable participants to develop collaborations with institutions and academics working on AR on an international platform to provide a global perspective.