Abstract
Compared to other research methodologies, action research is probably the youngest one. It’s been introduced in the middle of the twentieth century and has gained attention ever since. It became popular because it appeals to both researchers and organizations who seek impact and utilization of scientific results in practice. In this chapter, we present the principles of action research and provide concrete guidelines on how to propose an action research project. We elaborate on the main parts of the action research methodology and exemplify them. We show how we can use experiment systems to involve customers in action research, and we finish the chapter by presenting how to manage action research projects.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
—A. Einstein
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Staron, M. (2020). Action Research as Research Methodology in Software Engineering. In: Action Research in Software Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32610-4_2
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