干预作为一种研究策略

Intervention as a research strategy

JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT · 2019
被引 122
人大 AFT50UTD24ABS 4*

中文导读

探讨如何将干预(设计科学的最终体现)作为检验和发展理论的研究策略,提出两种基于行动研究和过程理论的研究模式,并以已发表文章为例说明其应用。

Abstract

Abstract The Journal of Operations Management (JOM) has made design science central to its development strategy, creating a department to incubate papers using this methodology. An inaugural editorial published in 2016 called for papers with a generic design supported by a design proposition that provides pragmatic guidelines to bridge the gap between the case specific and the universal. In this article, I propose ways in which the scope of interventions can be expanded beyond the editorial's proposal to foster theoretical developments and better align with JOM's mission. I propose that, rather than focus on the design propositions, we explore the role that interventions (the ultimate manifestation of design science) can play in testing and developing theory (the ultimate goal of an academic endeavor). Taking as a point of departure the principles of action research and the explanatory framework of process theories , I propose two modes of research for leveraging interventions as a mechanism for testing existing theory and develop theories about organizational and system transformation. I illustrate the application of these two frameworks in the context of a previously published article.

运营管理流程管理设计科学行动研究组织变革