General References on Design Science Research

Alexander, C. (1964). Notes on the Synthesis of Form. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press.

Carroll, J., and Kellogg, W. (1989). Artifact as Theory Nexus: Hermeneutics Meets Theory-Based Design. In Proceedings of CHI '89, ACM Press.

Dasgupta, S. (1996). Technology and Creativity. New York, Oxford University Press.

Gregg, D., U. Kulkarni, et al.(2001). "Understanding the Philosophical Underpinnings of Software Engineering Research in Information Systems." Information Systems Frontiers 3(2): 169-183.

Hevner, A., March, S., Park, J. and Ram, S. (2004). "Design Science in Information Systems Research." MIS Quarterly 28(1): 75-105.

Hevner, A. and March, S. (2003). "The Information Systems Research Cycle." IT Systems Perspective 36(11): 111-113.

Kuhn, T. (1996). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Lakatos, I. (1978) The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes (John Worral and Gregory Currie, Eds.), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

March, S. and Smith, G. (1995). "Design and Natural Science Research on Information Technology." Decision Support Systems 15 (1995): 251 - 266.

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McKay, J. and Marshall, P. (2005). A Review of Design Science in Information Systems. Austrailian Conference on Information Systems. Sydney.

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Purao, S. (2002). “Design Research in the Technology of Information Systems: Truth or Dare.” GSU Department of CIS Working Paper. Atlanta.

Rossi, M. and Sein, M. (2003). Design Research Workshop: A Proactive Research Approach. Presentation delivered at IRIS 26, August 9 – 12, 2003. http://tiesrv.hkkk.fi/iris26/presentation/workshop_designRes.pdf  last accessed January 16, 2004.

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Varela, F.  (1988). “Structural Coupling and the Origin of Meaning in a Simple Cellular Automata.” The Semiotics of Cellular Communication in the Immune System. E. Scaraz, F. Celada, N. Michenson and T. Tada. New York, Springer Verlag.

Walls, J., Widmeyer, G. and El Sawy, O. (1992). "Building an Information System Design Theory for Vigilant EIS." Information Systems Research 3(1), 36 - 59.

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References on Philosophical Grounding of Design Science Research

Ackoff, R. (1962). The nature of science and methodology. In R. Ackoff. Scientific Method: optimizing applied research decisions (Chapter 2). New York, John Wiley.

In this chapter, Professor Ackoff explains three outcomes of any research endeavor: (1) an answer to a research question; (2) a solution (e.g. an abstract or designed material artifact ) to a problem or (3) a more effective and/or efficient procedure for answering questions or solving problems.

Berger, P. and Luckman, T. (1966). The Social Construction of Reality: a treatise in the sociology of knowledge. Garden City, NY, Doubleday.

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Carroll, J., and Kellogg, W. (1989). Artifact as Theory Nexus: Hermeneutics Meets Theory-Based Design. In Proceedings of CHI '89, ACM Press.

Dasgupta, S. (1996). Technology and Creativity. New York, Oxford University Press.

Gregg, D., Kulkarni, U. and Vinze, A. (2001). "Understanding the Philosophical Underpinnings of Software Engineering Research in Information Systems." Information Systems Frontiers 3(2): 169-183.

Gregor, S. (2006). "The Nature of Theory in Information Systems." MISQ 30(3): 611-642.

Gregor, S. and D. Jones (2007). "The Anatomy of a Design Theory." Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) 8(5): Article 19.

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Hevner, A., March, S., Park, J. and Ram, S. (2004). "Design Science in Information Systems Research." MIS Quarterly 28(1): 75-105.

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March, S. and G. Smith (1995). "Design and Natural Science Research on Information Technology." Decision Support Systems 15, 251 - 266.

Markus, M. S., M. (2008). "A Foundation for the Study of IT Effects: A New Look at DeSanctis and Poole's Concepts of Structural Features and Sprit." Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) 9(3/4): 609-632.

Niehaves, B. (2007). "On Epistemological Diversity in Design Science - New Vistas for a Design-Oriented IS Research?" in the proceedings of ICIS 2007, Montreal.

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Purao, S. (2002). “Design Research in the Technology of Information Systems: Truth or Dare.” GSU Department of CIS Working Paper. Atlanta.

Saraswat, P. (2004). "A historical perspective on the philosophical foundations of information systems." Document online at the website of <AIS SIGPhilosophy, AIS> at: http://www.bauer.uh.edu/parks/fis/saraswat3.htm

  Here, Saraswat (2004) suggests that a <Systems Thinking> worldview is required to treat complex organizational IS. Also, he draws from the work of Roman architect, Marcus Vitruvius, to pose a new design framework for IS.

Searle, J., Ed. (1995). The Construction of Social Reality. New York, The Free Press.

 

References on Design Science Research Methodology


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Gregg, D., Kulkarni, U. and Vinze, A. (2001). "Understanding the Philosophical Underpinnings of Software Engineering Research in Information Systems." Information Systems Frontiers 3(2): 169-183.

Hevner, A., March, S., Park, J. and Ram, S. (2004). "Design Science in Information Systems Research." MIS Quarterly 28(1): 75-105.

Jarvinen, P. (2004) On Research Methods . Tiedekirjakauppa TAJU publisher, Helsinki, Finland. (Chapter 1; Chapter 5)

Jarvinen, P. (2006) "On A Variety of Research Output Types." Department of Computer and Information Sciences working paper, University of Tampere, Finland.

Jarvinen, P. (2006) "Research Questions Guiding Selection of an Appropriate Research Method." Department of Computer and Information Sciences working paper, University of Tampere, Finland.

Jarvinen, P. (2007) "Action Research is Similar to Design Science." Quantity and Quality 41: 37-54

Lakatos, I. (1978) The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes (John Worral and Gregory Currie, Eds.), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

March, S. and Smith, G. (1995). "Design and Natural Science Research on Information Technology." Decision Support Systems 15 (1995): 251 - 266.

Mingers, J. (2001). "Combining IS Research Methods: Towards a Pluralist Methodology." Information Systems Research 12(3): 240-259.

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Nunamaker, J., Chen, M. and Purdin, T. (1991). “System Development in Information Systems Research.” Journal of Management Information Systems, 7:3, pp. 89 – 106.

Purao, S. (2002). “Design Research in the Technology of Information Systems: Truth or Dare.” GSU Department of CIS Working Paper. Atlanta.

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  Shu (1998, p.189) poses that: " The design of effective systems is the ultimate goal of many fields, including engineering, business, and government. Yet system design has lacked a formal theoretical framework and thus, has been done heuristically or empirically". His paper then, set forth a formalism to design process based on function requirements, design parameters and process variables hierarchies.

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Vaishnavi, V., Buchanan, G. and Kuechler, W. (1997). "A Data/Knowledge Paradigm for the Modeling and Design of Operations Support Systems", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 2, March-April 1997, pp. 275 – 291.

Walls, J.,Widmeyer, G., El Sawy, O. (1992). "Building an Information System Design Theory for Vigilant EIS." Information Systems Research 3(1): 36 -59.

Walls, J.,Widmeyer, G., El Sawy, O. (2004). "Assessing Information System Design Theory in Perspective: How Useful was our 1992 Initial Rendition." Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application 6(2): 43-58.

Zelkowitz, M. and Wallace, D. (1998). "Experimental Models for Validating Technology." IEEE Computer 31(5): 23-31.

The authors describe 12 research techniques to validate a designed artifact; one or more could incorporated into a robust design research methodology.


References on Understanding Design Science Research in the Context of Information Systems Research


Adams, L.and Courtney, J. (2004) "Achieving Relevance in IS Research via the DAGS Framework." Proc. of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

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Arnott, D. (2006). "Cognitive biases and decision support systems development: a design science approach." Information Systems Journal 16: 55-78.

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Brooks, F. (1996). "The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith II." Communications of the ACM 39(3): 61-68.

  Here, Brooks (1996) poses that "... the scientist builds in order to study; the engineer studies in order to build". He suggests that <Computer Sciences> is a bad name for the field, since it rather belongs to a <Engineering> discipline. Brooks indicates (p. 63) "we are concerned with making things, be they computers, algorithms, or software systems" . According to Brooks, two criterion of success for a computer-based tool are: easy to use and <productive> or <usefulness>.
He also proposes an old Greek criterion of wisdom as part of the assessment of a design: Is the tool/artifact true? is it beautiful? it is good?, which adds an <ethical> dimension to the assessment process of any design.

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Germonprez, M., Hovorka, D., and Gal, U. (2011). Secondary Design: A Case of Behavioral Design Science Research. Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Forthcoming

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Glass, R., Ramesh, V. and Vessey, I. (2004). "An analysis of research computing disciplines." Communications of the ACM, 47(6): 89-94.

  Although the authors do not use the term <design science research>, it is clear - from table 2, pp. 91- that the research approach called <formulative> in contrast with <descriptive> and <evaluative> is closely related to <design science research>.

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Kolfschoten, G.and Vreede, G. de (2009). A Design Approach for Collaboration Processes: A Multi-Method Design Science Study in Collaboration Engineering. Journal of Management Information Systems, 26(1), 225-256.

Iivari, J. (2003). "The IS CORE VII: Towards Information Systems as a Science of Meta-Artifacts." Communication of the AIS 12(October), Article 37.

Kuechler, W. and Vaishnavi, V. (2007). "Design [Science] Research in IS: A Work in Progress" in proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST '07), May 13-16, 2007, Pasedena, CA.

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Peffers, K., Tuunanen, T., Rothenberger, M. and Chatterjee, S. (2007). "A Design Science Research Methodology for Information Systems Research." Journal of Management Information Systems 24(3): 45-77.

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  Tichy proposes that, from a formal statistical theory of design of experiments, computer scientists (and by implication, IS design science research academics) have not achieved the level of maturity of other empirical disciplines.

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References on Theory and Theory Development in Design Science Research


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