Information Systems Action Research: An Applied View of Emerging Concepts and Methods Book

Contributing authors.- Foreword.- Preface.- Methodological issues.- Action research: its nature and validity.- The structure of power in action research projects.- Action is an artifact: what action research and design science offer to each other.- Action research and design in information systems: two faces of a single coin.- The three threats of organizational action research: their nature and related antidotes.- Driven by two masters, serving both: the interplay of problem solving and research in information systems action research projects.- IS action research in practice.- Story telling in action research projects: Malta, Bangladesh, Lebanon and Slovenia.- Action research in new product development.- Action research in a virtual setting: cautions from a failed project.- Healthcare: fertile ground for action research.- Generating data for research on emerging technologies: an action learning approach.- A test of The Communication Flow Optimization Model through an action research study at a defense contractor.- Current Debate on IS action research.- Educing theory from practice.- A critical assessment of the information systems action research.- IS action research and its criteria.- Action research and consulting: Hellish partnership or heavenly marriage?.- A plea for action research in accounting information systems.- Insider as action researcher.- Index.