%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2016 %T Rejuvenating the Cider Route in Quebec: An Action Design Research Approach to Stakeholder Collaboration and Innovation %A L. Martin Cloutier %A Laurent Renard %A Sébastien Arcand %A E. Michael Laviolette %K action design research %K agrotourism %K boundary object %K Cider Route %K stakeholder collaboration %X This article examines the problem of rejuvenating collaboration for innovation among cideries (cider producers) and the regional tourism association as the historical key stakeholders of the Cider Route of the Montérégie region in Quebec, Canada. The article reports on the initial steps of an action design research approach to support the stakeholders of the Cider Route in designing an innovative solution in response to numerous challenges they face, including a lack of new initiatives and steeply declining membership among cideries. The first step of the action design research was to define the problem: to renew the collaborative process among the Cider Route stakeholders by redefining the vision, mission, and strategy leading to an artifact proposal that could take the form of a mobile application. Thus, the notion of a boundary object is employed – in relation to the process of designing an information technology artifact in the form of a mobile application for the Cider Route – as a way to understand the need to collaborate to innovate in this context. The article also reports on the ongoing second step of the action design research process, which consists of supporting the collaborative process using group concept mapping. The group concept mapping method was suggested to guide and sustain the collaborative process over time because it is a participatory, bottom-up, mixed-methods approach to evaluation and planning. The group concept mapping, applied within the action design research approach, could be helpful in two ways: first, to define the rejuvenated vision, mission, and strategy for the Cider Route; second, to define the specific functionalities of the mobile application for the Cider Route. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 6 %P 6-17 %8 11/2016 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/1030 %N 11 %1 University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) L. Martin Cloutier is a Professor in the Department of Management and Technology in the School of Management at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Canada. He holds a PhD degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and received BSc and MSc degrees from McGill University in Montreal. He was the Master’s Program Director in Management Information Systems from 2003 to 2016. His research program focuses on product, process, technological, and organizational innovation management; decision processes and tools for group decision making; mixed-methods research designs; and design science research. He has published thirty refereed articles, many on system-related management problems using system dynamics and group concept mapping. Professor Cloutier has initiated or led twenty group concept mapping projects in Canada and internationally in various areas including entrepreneurship, technological startups, continuous improvement, technology adoption and use, IT strategy design, and strategic development in cider and wine production. %2 University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) Laurent Renard is a Professor in the Department of Management and Technology in the School of Management at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Canada. He holds a PhD degree in Business Administration and a Master’s degree in Sociology, both from the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM). He is currently the Master’s Program Director in Information Technology in the School of Management UQAM. His research program focuses on e-tourism and strategy; IT strategic management; business analysis; and design science research. He has some twenty publications including articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He is also one of the editors of the book Les capacités de l’organisation en débat.. %3 HEC Montreal Sébastien Arcand is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Management at HEC Montreal, Canada. His main teaching and publishing interests are in the area of cross-cultural management, socio-economic integration of immigrants, and the links between culture, identity, and entrepreneurship. Some of his teaching activities take place in Colombia. Besides his research and teaching activities, he works frequently with organizations helping them to build a strategic diversity management approach. He holds a PhD in Sociology from University of Montreal and is a Qualified Administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory, a cross-cultural assessment of intercultural competence for individuals and organizations. %4 Toulouse Business School E. Michael Laviolette is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at Toulouse Business School and an Associate Researcher at MAGELLAN-IAE in Lyon, France. He holds a doctorate degree and a post-doctorate certification for scientific direction (HDR) in Management, awarded at IAE-University of Lyon and ISEM-University of Montpellier, respectively. His research builds on resource-based, dynamic capabilities and network theories to analyze entrepreneurial and innovation processes within broader and diverse socio-economic systems. He has published several articles on spin-offs in SMEs, entrepreneurial skills and leadership development in incubators, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and role models in educational programs, policy-based clusters as institutions. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1030