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Special Issue Editorial –Accumulation and Evolution of Design Knowledge in Design Science Research: A Journey Through Time and Space
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Sir Isaac Newton (1676) famously said, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Research is a collaborative, evolutionary endeavor—and it is no different with design science research (DSR), which builds upon existing design knowledge and creates new design knowledge to pass on to future projects. However, despite the vast, growing body of DSR contributions, scant evidence of the accumulation and evolution of design knowledge has been articulated in an organized DSR body of knowledge. Most contributions rather stand on their own feet than on the shoulders of giants, and this continues to limit how far we can see, curtailing the extent of the broader impacts that can be made through DSR. In this editorial, we aim at providing guidance on how to position design knowledge contributions in wider problem and solution spaces. We propose (1) a model conceptualizing design knowledge as a resilient relationship between problem and solution spaces, (2) a model that demonstrates how individual DSR projects consume and produce design knowledge, (3) a map to position a design knowledge contribution in problem and solution spaces, and (4) principles on how to use this map in a DSR project. We show how fellow researchers, readers, editors, and reviewers, as well as the IS community as a whole, can make use of these proposals, and also illustrate future research opportunities.
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A Design Science Research Methodology for Information Systems Research
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“Peffers et al. (2007), for instance, define the nominal DSR process sequence as starting with problem identification and continuing through objectives of definition, design and development, demonstration, evaluation, and the communication of results.”
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A Taxonomy of Evaluation Methods for Information Systems Artifacts
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“In addition, an increasing number of studies applying DSR methodology have been conducted, such as those discussed in the study of Prat et al., (2015), who analyzed 10 years of DSR publications in the Association for Information Systems Senior Scholars’ Basket of journals.”
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University of Liechtenstein, Debortoli, S., Müller, O., IT University of Copenhagen, Junglas, I., Florida State University, vom Brocke, J., & University of Liechtenstein (2016) · Communications of the Association for Information Systems · doi:10.17705/1cais.03907 · Cited by 199 · cited 1×
“Debortoli, 2016; Müller, Junglas, Debortoli, & vom Brocke, 2016) and to create and maintain taxonomies for different application contexts (Debortoli, Müller, & vom Brocke, 2014; Debortoli, Junglas, Müller, & vom Brocke 2016; Schmiedel, Müller, & vom Brocke, 2019).”
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- Authors
- University of Liechtenstein, L., vom Brocke, J., Winter, R., University of St. Gallen, S., Hevner, A., University of South Florida, U., Maedche, A., & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, G.
- Venue
- Journal of the Association for Information Systems
- Publisher
- Association for Information Systems
- Published
- 2020-05-01
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 520-544
- ISSN
- 1536-9323 (ISSN-L)
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- W3026547558
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- 254
- References
- 5
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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