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Action Design Research & Friendship - Guest Maung Sein

October 11, 2021 • Season 2 • Episode 1

Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Professor Maung Sein. Maung is a professor of Information Systems at the University of South-Eastern Norway & Kristiania University College. He has led a holistically nomadic life after completing his PhD in Indiana University and has published in leading IS journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Information Systems Journal, European Journal of Information Systems and presented his research in several international conferences such as ICIS. Professor Sein is probably best known for his legacy paper on Action Design Research published in MISQ.

In this episode, we initiate a short series of podcast episodes on design; breaking the ice by discussing action design research (ADR), some of the politics of publishing, and friendship in academia. Maung is full of stories and metaphors that might seem to take the conversation on a detour but always come back ever so eloquently to the point. Might want to grab a snack before you listen to this episode.

References:
Hevner, A. R., March, S. T., Park, J., & Ram, S. (2004). Design science in information systems research. MIS quarterly, 75-105.

Iivari, J. (2007). Nothing is as Clear as Unclear. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 19(2), 6.

Lanamäki, A., Thapa, D., & Stendal, K. (2016, December). When is an affordance? Outlining four stances. In Working Conference on Information Systems and Organizations (pp. 125-139). Springer, Cham.

Leonardi, P. M. (2011). When flexible routines meet flexible technologies: Affordance, constraint, and the imbrication of human and material agencies. MIS quarterly, 147-167.

Mullarkey, M. T., & Hevner, A. R. (2019). An elaborated action design research process model. European Journal of Information Systems, 28(1), 6-20.

Sein, M.K., & Rossi, M. (2018). Elaborating ADR while drifting away from its essence: A commentary on Mullarkey and Hevner. European Journal of Information Systems. ISSN: 0960-085X. doi:10.1080/0960085X.2018.1527189.

Sein, M.K., Henfridsson, O., Purao, S., Rossi, M., & Lindgren, R. (2011). Action Design Research. MIS Quarterly. ISSN: 0276-7783. 35 (1). s 37 - 56.

Thapa, D., & Sein, M.K. (2017). Trajectory of Affordances: Insights from a case of telemedicine in Nepal. Information Systems Journal. ISSN: 1350-1917. 28 (5). s 796 - 817. doi:10.1111/isj.12160.