Research-intervention is a research methodology in management sciences, economics, and sociology that belongs to the family of non-contemplative field research. It differs from action research, with which it is often mistakenly associated, by its transformative nature toward the companies and organizations studied, in order to meet their transformation objectives.
These transformation objectives, which the researcher-practitioner seeks to achieve and which give rise to their observations, can fall within the major fields of management: human resources, marketing, finance, management control, information systems, etc.
Research-intervention is therefore both a consulting and a research method, rooted in the paradigm of scientific consulting. It enables the researcher-practitioner to maximize the impact of their work—toward companies through their interventions, and toward academics through their publications.
