Action design research

Design research (DR) positions information technology artifacts at the core of the Information Systems\ndiscipline. However, dominant DR thinking takes a technological view of the IT artifact, paying scant attention\nto its shaping by the organizational context. Consequently, existing DR methods focus on building the artifact\nand relegate evaluation to a subsequent and separate phase. They value technological rigor at the cost of\norganizational relevance, and fail to recognize that the artifact emerges from interaction with the\norganizational context even when its initial design is guided by the researchers’ intent. We propose action design research (ADR) as a new DR method to address this problem. ADR…