Harrison Owen is the inventor of Open Space Technology (OST). Below are links to reviews of his two most important books. At his home page (click on the photo) are links to Papers and other gold nuggets.
Review: Wave Rider: Leadership for High Performance in a Self-Organizing World
“Learning as Transformation” is one of his more important and most widely-read online papers.
Academic Research on Open Space Technology
Review: Society’s Breakthrough!–Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People
See Also:
Review: Evolutionary Activism by Tom Atlee
Review: The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management–Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century