%0 Journal Article %1 basker99 %A Baskerville, Richard L. %D 1999 %J Communications of the Association for Information Systems %K action information systems research %N 19 %T Investigating Information Systems with Action Research %U http://cis.gsu.edu/~rbaskerv/CAIS_2_19/cais_2_19.pdf %V 2 %X Action research is an established research method in use in the social and medical sciences since the mid-twentieth century, and has increased in importance for information systems toward the end of the 1990s. Its particular philosophic context is couched in strongly post-positivist assumptions such as idiographic and interpretive research ideals. Action research has developed a history within information systems that can be explicitly linked to early work by Lewin and the Tavistock Institute. Action research varies in form, and responds to particular problem domains. The most typical form is a participatory method based on a five-step model, which is exemplified by published IS research.

@article{basker99, abstract = {Action research is an established research method in use in the social and medical sciences since the mid-twentieth century, and has increased in importance for information systems toward the end of the 1990s. Its particular philosophic context is couched in strongly post-positivist assumptions such as idiographic and interpretive research ideals. Action research has developed a history within information systems that can be explicitly linked to early work by Lewin and the Tavistock Institute. Action research varies in form, and responds to particular problem domains. The most typical form is a participatory method based on a five-step model, which is exemplified by published IS research.}, added-at = {2006-03-24T16:34:33.000+0100}, author = {Baskerville, Richard L.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24a7fdd96a68861afeef66f0c855d2e9d/neilernst}, citeulike-article-id = {251103}, comment = {- p6 "It [AR] is based on the Lewinian proposition that causal inferences about the behaviour of human beings are more likely to be valid and enactable when the human beings in question participate in building and testing them. [Argyris and Schoen, 1991]" - "Action research aims for an understanding of a complex human process rather than prescribing a universal social law" - this sounds like Eric Yu's i* perspective (no objective reality) - "the researcher must be of value to those being researched" - the ideal AR domain: 1) actively involved researcher, with benefits for both researcher and org; 2) the knowledge obtained can be immediately applied; 3) research is cyclical process linking theory and practise (p7) - good discussion of how and when to use AR; I'm not sure the example described is actually AR research though: little participation and collaboration, and little focus on the social system.}, description = {sdasda}, interhash = {fa17dee5f5d18e099ba4f243998c71b6}, intrahash = {4a7fdd96a68861afeef66f0c855d2e9d}, journal = {Communications of the Association for Information Systems}, keywords = {action information systems research}, month = {October}, number = 19, priority = {0}, timestamp = {2006-03-24T16:34:33.000+0100}, title = {Investigating Information Systems with Action Research}, url = {http://cis.gsu.edu/~rbaskerv/CAIS_2_19/cais_2_19.pdf}, volume = 2, year = 1999 }