What do you call research that has no hypothesis?
It is a thesis. From what you've written, your hypothesis is that 


  you can tailor the [information-systems] management theory for it to be useful under economic constraints to a real specific problem


You might also be doing exploratory research, or blue-skies research, where you don't start with a research question, you start with a direction, subject or area, and go wandering off looking for interesting problems.