Special issue on action research in information systems: making is research relevant to practice--foreword

By Richard L. Baskerville, Michael D. Myers. 2004

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

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A Paradigmatic Analysis of Information Systems As a Design Science (2007, background): “As is well-known, action research has its roots in Kurt Lewin and the socio-technical design movement (Baskerville and Myers 2004), whereas design science research has its roots in engineering.”
One Size Does Not Fit All---A Contingency Approach to Data Governance (2009, background): “Both parties bring their equally valuable, distinctive sets of knowledge into the research, which consists of general theories on the part of researchers, and situational, practical knowledge on the part of practitioners [Baskerville and Myers 2004].”
The relevance of knowledge management and intellectual capital Research (2008, background): “There have been special journal issues (e.g., see Baskerville and Myers, 2004; Gray, 2001; Lee, 2001) and conference panels (e.g., Knowledge and Process Management Volume 15 Number 4 pp 235–246 (2008) Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/kpm.314”
Improving Employees' Compliance Through Information Systems Security Training: An Action Research Study (2010, methodology): “This also fulfills the requirement of socially situated action (Baskerville and Myers 2004).”
Guest editorial: qualitative studies in information systems: a critical review and some guiding principles (2013, neutral): “…in earlier issues of MISQ.5 And finally, we excluded action research and design research, given that they contain many elements in addition to (and distinct from) those core to the typical qualitative study (Baskerville and Myers 2004), rendering them beyond the scope of our review and analysis.”
Pragmatism vs interpretivism in qualitative information systems research (2012, methodology): “When introducing the MIS Quarterly special issue on action research (AR), Baskerville & Myers (2004) claim that paradigmatic foundations for this research approach should be found in pragmatism.”
Co-Creation in Virtual Worlds: The Design of the User Experience (2011, background): “Action research aims at capitalizing on joint learning by the researcher and subjects within the context of the subjects' social systems (Baskerville and Myers 2004; Susman and Evered 1978).”
Action Research is Similar to Design Science (2007, background): “Baskerville and Wood-Harper (1998) recommend that the results of the action research study “should help to explain why certain actions resolved the problem setting and why certain actions failed to resolve the problem setting”.”