Agile research approach - basic principles

As contrasted to output-oriented and, mainly, positivist, research approach, I favour an agile research approach with the following guiding principles:

1. Intensive stakeholder involvement and participation in the research process (think of action research)
2. No need to have clear specification of research objectives, research questions, research output deliverables and research design to start the agile research process (you could call it the "think as you go" principle; it also endorses the research process as a flux) 
3.  It is theoretically, methodologically vigorous (think of the example of using soft systems methodology in research works)
4. It is informed by serious literature review efforts (that is the analysis is informed and is not based on common-sense only)
5. The research proposal and research process are based on the negotiation paradigm in the sense that the research process has to be accepted by the research student, the dissertation supervisor, the client sponsor, the education centre and, finally, the university involved.
6. The research process is mainly case study based (i.e. case study research)

It is quite appropriate to treat the agile research appproach, as formulated by me, as a root definition with specific CATWOE elements in Soft Systems Thinking. And the application of agile research in a specific context is, inevitably, subject to various constraints such that the six guiding principles above may not all be able to be practised.

Agile research approach is a useful means for Enlightening Management Education in Multi-perspective, Systems-based Research.