JRP Submission for Review (ID#135)
Title: Supporting Collectives to Achieve Effectiveness
Date Submitted: June 9, 2008
Category: Research Design
No. of Words: About 3500

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ABSTRACT: The role of information systems (IS) has been extended from
its original perspective--processing information--to a more
challenging one, to act as a resource that supports both individual
and collective action. In a research focused on how collective action
could be informed in order to be more effective and efficient, an
additional interpretation was recognised: communities that behave like
information systems as they may support their members' actions. This
possibility is illustrated by means of a research design, consisting
of two study cases, which in terms of its results might well be
considered an example of community OR practice, rather than a research
on IS.

KEYWORDS: community OR; information systems; collectives;
self-organisation; research design
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