The Role of Conventional Research Methods in Information Systems Action Research

Mathiassen, Lars

doi:10.1007/1-4020-8095-6_19

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“…Just as the concepts of research approach and epistemology are not tied together [Klein and Myers 1999], Germonprez and Mathiassen [2004] point out that research methods are not tied to epistemology. Quantitative or qualitative methods may be used with any epistemological perspective.…”

Section: Multi-methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Publishing Information Systems Action Research for a Positivist Audience

DeLuca¹,

Kock²

2007

CAIS

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Action research is particularly valuable for its ability to inform theory while making a practical difference. Special issues of MISQ in 2004 and Information Technology and People in 2001 called attention both to action research and research methodology. Yet action research is not widely disseminated across the information systems discipline.The purpose of this tutorial is to advance information systems action research and serve researchers, practitioners, and reviewers by addressing the dissemination problem. We consider how an action research project and the resulting article can widen its appeal to information systems scholars in two ways. First, by clarifying the information systems research paradigm vocabulary of epistemology, methodology, and the action research approach. And second, we outline an article structure more familiar to positivist researchers, thereby creating a bridge among IS scholars to a largely positivist audience. This tutorial is based on the experiences of the authors as information systems action researchers.Editor's Note: This tutorial was developed based on a presentation made at AMCIS 2005.

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Section: Multi-methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Qualitative and quantitative methods can be combined in many ways and much value is gained by doing so [Creswell 2003;Germonprez and Mathiassen 2004]. A primarily positivist audience is generally looking for some numbers.…”

Section: Quantitative Methodsmentioning

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Publishing Information Systems Action Research for a Positivist Audience

DeLuca¹,

Kock²

2007

CAIS

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“…Action research is used to understand, but most of all improve, real-life situations in an iterative way [8,47]. In relation to software engineering action research has been used mostly for implementing organizational changes related to software development -such as process improvement [61] and technology transfer [49] -in contrast to developing software artifacts [93].…”

Section: Action Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Executable and Translatable UML -- How Difficult Can it Be?

Burden

Heldal

Siljamaki

2011

2011 18th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference

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Model-Driven Engineering is a paradigm for software engineering where software models are the primary artefacts throughout the software life-cycle. The aim is to define suitable representations and processes that enable precise and efficient specification, development and analysis of software.Our contributions to Model-Driven Engineering are structured according to Boyer's four functions of academic activity -the scholarships of teaching, discovery, application and integration. The scholarships share a systematic approach towards seeking new insights and promoting progressive change. Even if the scholarships have their differences they are compatible so that theory, practice and teaching can strengthen each other.Scholarship of Teaching While teaching Model-Driven Engineering to undergraduate students we introduced two changes to our course. The first change was to introduce a new modelling tool that enabled the execution of software models while the second change was to adapt pair lecturing to encourage the students to actively participate in developing models during lectures.Scholarship of Discovery By using an existing technology for transforming models into source code we translated class diagrams and high-level action languages into natural language texts. The benefit of our approach is that the translations are applicable to a family of models while the texts are reusable across different low-level representations of the same model. Scholarship of ApplicationRaising the level of abstraction through models might seem a technical issue but our collaboration with industry details how the success of adopting Model-Driven Engineering depends on organisational and social factors as well as technical.Scholarship of Integration Building on our insights from the scholarships above and a study at three large companies we show how Model-Driven Engineering empowers new user groups to become software developers but also how engineers can feel isolated due to poor tool support. Our contributions also detail how modelling enables a more agile development process as well as how the validation of models can be facilitated through text generation.The four scholarships allow for different possibilities for insights and explore ModelDriven Engineering from diverse perspectives. As a consequence, we investigate the social, organisational and technological factors of Model-Driven Engineering but also examine the possibilities and challenges of Model-Driven Engineering across disciplines and scholarships.

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“…Baskerville and Wood-Harper [4] identify three important pitfalls (issues of impartiality, discipline, and context-dependency), which the researcher using this method must be aware of, and address. Action research was chosen as the method for this research since the method supports both positivist and interpretavist approaches [15] irrespective of this the results arising from this method can be used "across varying epistemologies, ontologies, and methodologies" [8]. In addition to this, the method is openly an approach that attempts to develop important contributions to practice while carrying out research within that practice, and at the same time providing valuable insights to the research community [18].…”

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Open access barriers: An action research

Klang

2008

Social Dimensions of Information and Communication Technology Policy

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ICT has provided the infrastructure to enable easy access to scientific information. Despite this, libraries are suffering from the rising of journal subscriptions. Additionally, the structure of scholarly publications is creating a wasteful situation where publicly funded research is being paid for several times over. University libraries are struggling to deal with these new realities at the same time as they provide a level of service with acceptable access to publications. The work of librarians is being heavily affected by the influence of copyright and licensing which together are creating barriers to open access. The work in this chapter draws from an action research in progress undertaken by Lund's University in order to explore the barriers to open access to scientific research output in Sweden.

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The Role of Conventional Research Methods in Information Systems Action Research

Cited by 11 publications

References 42 publications

Publishing Information Systems Action Research for a Positivist Audience

Publishing Information Systems Action Research for a Positivist Audience

Executable and Translatable UML -- How Difficult Can it Be?

Open access barriers: An action research

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