Designing Engaged Scholarship: From Real-World Problems to Research Publications

Designing Technical Action Research and Generalizing from Real-World Cases

This tutorial presents a sound methodology for technical action research, which consist of testing a new artifact by using it to solve a real problem. Such a test would be useless if we could not generalize from it, and the tutorial introduces architectural inference as a way of supporting generalizations by technical action research.

From Real World Problems to Domain Characterisations

Several problems associated with current approaches to knowledge acquisition have been identified by various workers. These include the lack of an explicit theoretical basis to many existing methodologies and the requirement to be able to integrate the analysis, elicitation and representation of knowledge into a coherent domain model. The purpose of this paper is to address some of these issues...

Dialogical Action Research as Engaged Scholarship: An Empirical Study

The rigor versus relevance debate continues to be a matter of lively discussion in the information systems discipline. The main argument of this paper is that dialogical action research provides a methodology to pursue engaged scholarship in the IS field. The context is an examination of innovation management in an Irish subsidiary of APC by Schneider Electric. The primary objective of the pape...

Engaged Scholarship: Action Design Research for New Software Product Development

Action Design Research (ADR) has been termed a new research method for generating prescriptive design knowledge through building and evaluating ensemble IT artifacts in an organizational setting. This paper demonstrates the use of the ADR methodology in a New Software Product Development (NSPD) environment. The main argument of this paper is to investigate whether ADR facilitates engaged schola...

Engaged Scholarship: A Guide for Organizational and Social Research