SPECIAL ISSUE ON ACTION RESEARCH IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS: MAKING IS RESEARCH RELEVANT TO PRACTICE—FOREWORD

摘要

This special issue of MIS Quarterly is devoted to the subject of action research in information systems. The senior editors of this Special Issue were Richard Baskerville and Michael D. Myers. The deadline for submission was September 30, 2002. A total of 29 manuscripts were submitted. Of these, six made it though two or more review cycles. These six are presented in this issue. Another two manuscripts are still in the review process, but the disposition of these had not been determined by the publication deadline for this issue. If one or both of these manuscripts are accepted, they will appear in a future issue of MIS Quarterly. Before we describe the articles in this issue, we will first explain our rationale for publishing a special issue on action research in information systems.