Information systems foundations : : the role of design science / / Dennis N. Hart and Shirley D. Gregor (editors).

• TeilnehmendeR: Hart, Dennis N.,; Gregor, Shirley D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Canberra, ACT, Australia : : ANU E Press,, [2010]; 2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Information systems foundations
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume presents papers from the fourth biennial Information Systems Foundation Workshop, held at The Australian National University in Canberra from 2-3 October, 2008.

Table of Contents

Preliminary; Preface; Philosophical Foundations; 1. Identification-interaction innovation:a phenomenological basis for an information services view. Dirrk Hovorka Bond University Matt Germonprez University of Wisconsin; 2. How critical realism clarifies validity issues in theory-testing research: analysis and case. Robert B. Johnston University College Dublin, Stephen P. Smith Monash University and University of Melbourne ; Theory and Method; 3. Building theory in a practical science. Shirley Gregor Australian National University

4. Incommensurability in design science: which comes first-theory or artifact? Michael Davern Alison Parkes. University of Melbourne 5. An exploration of the concept of design in information systems Judy McKay Swinburne University of Technology. Peter Marsha ll University of Tasmania. Greg Heath Swinburne University of Technology; 6. Evaluating information systems: an appropriation perspective Justin Fidock RMIT University, and Defence Science and Technology Organisation Jennie Carroll RMIT University Anita Rynne Land Warfare Development Centre ,Department of Defense; Applications

7. On using materiality in information systems development: a research brief. Andrea Carugati University of Aarhus 8. How IS design can contribute to a major climate change mitigation project. Walter Fernández Australian National University Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn Luleå University of Technology Michael Djordjevic Keith Lovegrove Javier Fernández-Velasco Mishka Talent Australian National University; 9. An intelligent agent-assisted logistics exception management decision support system: a design science approach. Shijia Gao Dongming Xu University of Queensland

10. Thinking beyond means-ends analysis: the role of impulse-driven human creativity in the design of artificially intelligent systems Dongming Xu Yonggui Wang Sukanto Bhattacharya University of Queensland 11. An information systems design theory for an RFID university-based laboratory Samuel Fosso Wamba École Polytechnique de Montréal, and University of Wollongong Katina Michael University of Wollongong; Design Science in IS; 12. An assessment of DSS design science using the Hevner, March, Park and Ram guidelines David Arnott Monash University Graham Pervan Curtin University of Technology

13. Design science in IS research: a literature analysis Marta Indulska University of Queensland Jan Recker Queensland University of Technology