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Title: Designing an information system for updating land records in Bangladesh: action design ethnographic research (ADER)
Authors: Brooks, L
Alam, MS
Keywords: Action design research;Action design ethnographic research;Service delivery;Land records;Bangladesh
Issue Date: 2014
Publisher: Springer US
Citation: Information Systems Frontiers: (19 June 2014)
Abstract: Information Systems (IS) has developed through adapting, generating and applying diverse methodologies, methods, and techniques from reference disciplines. Further, Action Design Research (ADR) has recently developed as a broad research method that focuses on designing and redesigning IT and IS in organizational contexts. This paper reflects on applying ADR in a complex organizational context in a developing country. It shows that ADR requires additional lens for designing IS in such a complex organizational context. Through conducting ADR, it is seen that an ethnographic framework has potential complementarities for understanding complex contexts thereby enhancing the ADR processes. This paper argues that conducting ADR with an ethnographic approach enhances design of IS and organizational contexts. Finally, this paper aims presents a broader methodological framework, Action Design Ethnographic Research (ADER), for designing artefacts as well as IS. This is illustrated through the case of a land records updating service in Bangladesh.
Description: Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.
URI: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9519
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10796-014-9512-7
ISSN: 1387-3326
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