Despite the growing prominence of canonical action research (CAR) in the information systems discipline, a paucity of methodological guidance continues to hamper those conducting and evaluating such studies. This article elicits a set of five principles and associated criteria to help assure both the rigor and the relevance of CAR in information systems. The first principle relates to the devel...

This paper reviews the action research component of a three-year project set in an Information Technology Unit seeking to become a strategic partner of business. We first describe the research project and design. We then demonstrate how the project moved the participants to take charge of the research project in order to change their own culture, their individual leadership practices, and their...

Higher education institutions are traditionally seen as producers of new knowledge and technology. However, a change is taking place as cooperation in value networks, co-created service innovations, the contributions of lead innovations and regional development that impacts on social and global improvements have become more important for the development of new knowledge and technology. The obje...

Action research aims at doing a change in practice at the same time as research is performed. In the article of Rasmussen [3] it is described as a research paradigm opposing the positivistic paradigm. That Action research has links to a more political view of the world can be seen in the following quote that also gives a definition: “... action research is a participatory, democratic process co...

The aim of this paper is to examine the role of methodology in action research. It begins by showing how, as a form of inquiry concerned with the development of practice, action research is nothing other than a modern 20th century manifestation of the pre-modern tradition of practical philosophy. It then draws in Gadamer’s powerful vindication of the contemporary relevance of practical philosop...

As a result of its greatly increased in popularity and range of application, action research has now become a loosely applied term for any kind of attempt to improve or investigate practice. In view of the confusion that frequently arises from this, the main aim of this author is to clarify the term. After a brief history of the method, the makes a case for regarding action research as one of a...