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Both action research and design science provide the means for doing research that is rigorous and relevant. In this essay, I combine the different stages of the action research cycle with the different research activities and research outputs of design science. The result is a framework in which action research and design science are able to complement and strengthen each other.
The ideas in current paper have their genesis in an earlier paper (Susarapu and Lee, 2005). Any problems wrought by the additional ideas or changed ideas in the current paper are entirely my own responsibility.
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Lee, A.S. (2007). Action is an Artifact. In: Kock, N. (eds) Information Systems Action Research. Integrated Series in Information Systems, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-36060-7_3
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