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Title

Action research in practice: balancing the dual imperatives

Author(s)

Marshall, Peter;  de Salas, Kristy;  McKay, Judy

Abstract

This paper provides a description of and reflections on an action research project. The project is described from its initialisation and conceptualisation through to the completion of the engagement with the clients of the problem-solving exercise. It is hoped that the reflections on the key issues of the action research project will provide opportunities for discussion and learning among readers.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

Source

Proceedings of 'Thought leadership in IS', the 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2006), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 06-08 December 2006 / S. Spencer and A. Jenkins (eds.), paper no. 10

Publication year

2006

FOR Code(s)

0806 Information Systems

Keyword(s)

Action research;  Business processes;  Information systems strategy formulation;  Organisational problem solving

Publisher

Australasian Association for Information Systems

ISBN

9780975841716

Publisher URL

http://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2006/10

Copyright

Proceedings copyright © 2006 ACIS. This paper copyright © 2006 the authors. The authors assign to ACIS and educational and non-profit institutions a non-exclusive licence to use this document for personal use and in courses of instruction provided that the article is used in full and this copyright statement is reproduced. The authors also grant a non-exclusive licence to ACIS to publish this document in full in the Conference Papers and Proceedings. Those documents may be published on the World Wide Web, CD-ROM, in printed form, and on mirror sites on the World Wide Web. Any other usage is prohibited without the express permission of the authors.

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