Carrying Out Scientific Consulting Through SEAM

Intervention-research is the scientific “vehicle” of SEAM, which therefore shares its theoretical and consulting principles. SEAM intervention-research process takes place in the paradigm of evidence-based management which brings together field approaches aimed at theorizing professional practices. At a second level, as transformative collaborative research, SEAM is in line with the engaged scholarship approach particularly in terms of the three main epistemological devices it mobilizes: cognitive interactivity, contradictory intersubjectivity and generic contingency. As SEAM is not a classic consulting mission without scientific intentions, the way to sell it to companies and public organizations deserves a specific method also presented in the chapter.