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作者：Street, CT; Meister, DB
作者单位：Queens University - Canada; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：While many large businesses start out as a small enterprise, remarkably little is known about how an organization actually changes internally during the periods of growth. Small business growth is known to strain internal communication processes, for example, which likely limits growth opportunities. Information systems are often called upon to remedy such deficiencies. Through a participatory action research project, we investigated the ways in which a small business management team developed...
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作者：Braa, J; Monteiro, E; Sahay, S
作者单位：University of Oslo; Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU)
摘要：Our paper is motivated by one simple question: Why do so many action research efforts fail to persist overtime? We approach this question, the problem of sustainability, building on a perspective on action research identifying the pivotal importance of networks. More precisely, local action research interventions need to be conceptualized and approached as but one element in a larger network of action in order to ensure sustainability. A vital aspect of our perspective is that local interventi...
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作者：Mårtensson, P; Lee, AS
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics; Virginia Commonwealth University
摘要：In dialogical action research, the scientific researcher does not speak science or otherwise attempt to teach scientific theory to the real-world practitioner, but instead attempts to speak the language of the practitioner and accepts him as the expert on his organization and its problems. Recognizing the difficulty that a practitioner and a scientific researcher can have in communicating across the world of science and the world of practice, dialogical action research offers, as its centerpie...
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作者：Baskerville, R; Myers, MD
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作者：Iversen, JH; Mathiassen, L; Nielsen, PA
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; Aalborg University
摘要：Many software organizations engage in software process improvement (SPI) initiatives to increase their capability to develop quality solutions at a competitive level. Such efforts, however, are complex and very demanding. A variety of risks makes it difficult to develop and implement new processes. We studied SPI in its organizational context through collaborative practice research (CPR), a particular form of action research. The CPR program involved close collaboration between practitioners a...
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作者：Weber, R
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作者：Kohli, R; Kettinger, WJ
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Past literature recognizes the power of information technology (IT) to establish greater transparency and in turn the potential for greater control. Theoretical perspectives such as informating and agency theory describe situations whereby legitimized management authority can control goal divergence by implementing information systems to better monitor agents' behavior and outcomes. But what happens when the principal does not possess legitimacy to impose an agent's use of information and/or b...
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作者：Lindgren, R; Henfridsson, O; Schultze, U
作者单位：Southern Methodist University
摘要：Even though the literature on competence in organizations recognizes the need to align organization level core competence with individual level job competence, it does not consider the role of information technology in managing competence across the macro and micro levels. To address this shortcoming, we embarked on an action research study that develops and tests design principles for competence management systems. This research develops an integrative model of competence that not only outlin...
