Abstract
This essay presents a speculative work on making
distinctions among different equally valid types of
research relevance. The work is innovative not only
because it departs from the extant monistic
perspectives, where only narrow forms of relevance
are acknowledged, towards a pluralist perspective,
but also because it recognizes and accounts for the
plurality in the perceptions of relevance among
different stakeholder groups of the same research.
The pluralist perspective draws on the notion of
“empowerment,” widely employed in such domains
as education and social work, and suggests that
relevant research in fact can be understood as
empowering research to which different stakeholder
groups can relate in one way or another. Two
analytical dimensions are identified in relation to the
notion of “empowerment,” and are used in order to
demonstrate four general types of relevance that can
be achieved in IS research.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences |
Publisher | IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
Pages | 5783-5792 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-0-9981331-0-2 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-9981331-0-2 |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Information Systems, Social aspects
- Economics and Business
Free keywords
- IS research
- relevance
- empowerment