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The Anatomy of a Design Theory

The Anatomy of a Design Theory. Shirley Gregor and David Jones Journal of the Association for Information Systems (2007) Gun- woong Lee. Research Motivation and Research Questions. Need for Design Theory No established approach for formulating design knowledge

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The Anatomy of a Design Theory

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  1. The Anatomy of a Design Theory Shirley Gregorand David Jones Journal of the Association for Information Systems (2007) Gun-woong Lee

  2. Research Motivation and Research Questions • Need for Design Theory • No established approach for formulating design knowledge • Why design theory is required in IS design science research? • How design knowledge can be expressed as theory? • Enables communicate, justify, and develop design knowledge! • Little attention paid to the problem of specifying design theory • What makes difference design theory from other theories in IS? • Theory for design and action! • Lack of (limited) studies on specifying components in design theory • What are the key components of design theory? • Eight possible components of an information systems design theory

  3. Main Findings • Design Theories vs. Natural science-type theories [Dubin 1978] • Justification knowledge: provide an explanation of why the design works • Missing (misleading) components in prior approaches [Walls et al. 1992] • The importance of an instantiation of a design theory

  4. Strengthens • Research motivation • Analytical approach in proposing the ISDT components • Identification of challenges in prior approaches • The importance of Instantiation of a design science Weaknesses • Applicability of the ISDT components • Include more articles that do not meet some components • Recognition of weaknesses in current IS design science research

  5. Weaknesses and Extensions • Differences from Hevner et al.(2004) ’s study • Gregor and Jones • Approach: Specifying design theory (nature of design science) • Theory: Prescription of designing knowledge • Findings: ISDT components (importance of instantiations) • Guideline to what might be included in a design science article • Artifacts: • Material artifacts (instantiations), Abstract artifacts (constructs, models, methods) • Hevner et al. • Approach: Design science as research activity • Research approach, motivation, evaluation, and so on. • Theory: knowledge produced by decision science • Findings: research guidelines • Artifacts: outputs of design science

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