Using Stag Hunt Boundary Objects for Establishing ResearcherClient
Using Stag Hunt Boundary Objects for Establishing Researcher-Client Agreements in Information Systems Action Research Petter Øgland, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo NOKOBIT, 24 -25 November 2015 (18 MINUTES)
Canonical Action Research (CAR) is a method for studying how to implement information systems
Action research success depends on mutual researcher-client trust
Stag Hunt (Rousseau, 1754; Skyrms, 2004) Hunt stag = accept RCA Hunt hare = ignore RCA
Two Nash equilibriums – Agree to do AR & agree not to do AR Hunt stag = accept RCA Hunt hare = ignore RCA
How to get from distrust to trust? Hunt stag = accept RCA Hunt hare = ignore RCA
Idea: Consider the intervention strategy as a BOUNDARY OBJECT
What does an AR intervention strategy look like? Researcher Client
How to make the circles overlap? Researcher Client
Articulate the strategy as an algorithm Researcher Client
Creating an RCA between Ui. O and NTAX Researcher Client
Long journey. . . 2013: Ui. O wants to study the BA 2014: NTAX positive if research can be externally funded Three RCAs are written in the shape of a grant proposals but proposals are rejected. With each try the BA becomes more reified 2015 -16: Can the RCA be established more informally?
The book is expected to motivate a change of equilibrium for the stag hunt Hunt stag = accept RCA Hunt hare = ignore RCA
The book makes the strategy into a physical and mathematical object
Using the algorithmic representation of the intervention strategy as a boundary object makes AR more similar to DSR
Summary: intervention strategy as boundary object 1. Reification 2. Immutable mobile 3. Impact on how CAR is done
Thank you
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