---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: IT&P Special Issue on IS Action Research Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:46:08 -0400 From: Ned Kock kock@joda.cis.temple.edu To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

It is our pleasure to announce the publication of the Vol. 14, No. 1 issue of the journal Information Technology and People.

This is a special issue on Information Systems Action Research (the first ever, as far as we know).

The papers in the issue are:

(Guest-editor's introduction to the special issue) Information Systems Action Research: Serving Two Demanding Masters by Ned Kock and Francis Lau

Advice For An Action Researcher by Enid Mumford

Controlling Action Research Projects by David Avison, Richard Baskerville and Michael Myers

The Dual Imperatives of Action Research by Judy McKay and Peter Marshall

GSS and Action Research in the Hong Kong Police Force by Robert Davison

Action Learning and Groupware Technologies: A Case Study in GSS Facilitation Research by Pak Yoong and Brent Gallupe

System Development Conflict During the Use of an Information Systems Prototyping Method of Action Research: Implications for Practice and Research by Mike Chiasson and Albert Dexter

We would like to thank Eleanor Wynn, IT&P's editor, and the members of IT&P's editorial board for their support.

This special issue has a "history", which is described in our introduction "Information Systems Action Research: Serving Two Demanding Masters", avaible from the URL below.

http://www.mis.temple.edu/kock/Publications/2001ITP/ISAR2mastersWeb.htm

Best regards,

Ned Kock and Francis Lau Guest editors

---------------------------- Ned Kock, PhD Temple University 1810 N. 13th Street, Speakman Hall, Room 210C Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA Phone: +1 215 204 4573, Fax: +1 215 204 3101 Email: kock@sbm.temple.edu Web page: http://www.mis.temple.edu/kock/

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