Prescriptive Knowledge in IS Research: Conceptualizing Design Principles in Terms of Materiality, Action, and Boundary Conditions

Chandra, Leona; Seidel, Stefan; Gregor, Shirley

doi:10.1109/hicss.2015.485

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“…For this study, in the problem-formulation and theory-building process (see Section 1), I outlined the research question with a theory-driven problem-centered initiation (Peffers, Tuunanen, Rothenberger, & Chatterjee, 2008; Volume 43 10.17705/1CAIS.04306 Paper 6 Sein, Henfridsson, Purao, Rossi, & Lindgren, 2011) and developed a new theory on idea evaluation (see Sections 2 and 3). In the artifact manifestation (see Section 5), I integrated the theoretical constructs from dynamic idea evaluation in the design principles for the GCSS prototype trough material properties and guidelines for action (Chandra, Seidel, & Gregor, 2015). In the artifact-exploration process, I demonstrated the developed GCSS prototype in use and explored it with participant observation in a Danish research department (Bryman, 2004;Järvinen, 2004).…”

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“…Table 2 explains how the dynamic idea evaluation has been manifested in the GCSS prototype. The design artifact manifestation is inspired by Chandra, Seidel, and Gregor's (2015) conceptualization of design principles as materiality (how the artifact is designed) and action (how the design is useful). In the conceptualization, manifestation replaces principle as I implement the design in the GCSS prototype.…”

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Exploring Divergent and Convergent Production in Idea Evaluation: Implications for Designing Group Creativity Support Systems

Frank¹

2018

CAIS

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Most organizations need to evaluate novel ideas to identify their value. However, current idea evaluation research and practice hinder creativity by primarily facilitating convergent production (narrowing down ideas to a few tangible solutions) but discounting divergent production (the development of wildly creative and novel thoughts patterns). In this paper, I challenge this dominant view on idea evaluation by presenting a new theory I call dynamic idea evaluation and exploring the theory through a group creativity support system (GCSS) prototype. I designed the GCSS prototype as an idea portal that uses the knowledge created from the evaluation process to facilitate both convergent and divergent production. I designed the GCSS using an inductive and theory-building design science research (DSR) approach and interpretively analyzed it through an exploratory study in a Danish IS research department. I found that the GCSS demonstrates the ability to facilitate both divergent and convergent production during idea evaluation. Moreover, I add four design requirements and process architecture to help designers to build dynamic idea evaluation into this class of systems.

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Section: Design Of the Gcss Prototypementioning

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Exploring Divergent and Convergent Production in Idea Evaluation: Implications for Designing Group Creativity Support Systems

Frank¹

2018

CAIS

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“…In summary, the need to establish or demonstrate IV arises during: theory testing, when IS artifacts are used to manipulate theoretical constructs [2]; evaluation of a design science artifact, if the evaluation relies on a concrete instantiation [5,14]; and the application of IS design knowledge by the practitioner community.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The final product of design theorizing aims to solve some class of real-world problems [11,12] by virtue of causal impact of artifact properties on features of the environment [13]. Chandra et al [14] note that IV answers the question of whether a real-world artifact that adopts some design theory "indeed proffers the action described by the design principle" (p. 4046). Similar to theory testing, failure to build an artifact sufficiently similar to the one envisioned by the researcher may result in failure to solve the problem for which the artifact is built.…”

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Guidelines for Establishing Instantiation Validity in IT Artifacts: A Survey of IS Research

Lukyanenko

Evermann

Parsons

2015

New Horizons in Design Science: Broadening the Research Agenda

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Abstract. The centrality of information technology (IT) artifacts in Information Systems (IS) research makes it important to understand the relationship between artifacts and the theoretical constructs they purport to instantiate. Despite the central role of the IT artifact in IS research, there are no generally accepted principles for establishing instantiation validity -the extent to which an artifact is a valid instantiation of a theoretical construct or a manifestation of a design principle. We survey relevant knowledge in IS and identify potential guidelines that may address threats to instantiation validity. The guidelines are intended for researchers and reviewers when using IT artifacts in theory testing and when evaluating design science artifacts.

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“…To do so, we conduct a literature review, analyze 16 community currency projects (Table 1), and study one project at its end-of-life in more detail. The insights are synthesized into actionable design principles [8]. The design principles in this work lay the ground for subsequent development of IT artifacts for sustainable communities that utilize DCCs.…”

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confidence: 99%

Design Principles for Digital Community Currencies

Chasin¹,

Schmolke

Becker

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Community currencies are alternative currencies, which enable the mobilization of local resources for local needs and building resilient communities. They allow community members to perform economic transactions like buying products and paying for services using an alternative currency as a medium of exchange. For decades, regional, paper-based community currencies have been in use across the world. With the advent of the digital age, community currencies are increasingly moving into the digital space. Digital Community Currencies (DCCs) create opportunities for addressing challenges that traditional community currencies are facing, such as the inconvenience of handling two currencies in one wallet and the geographic limitation to a limited user population. This research builds upon characteristics and challenges of community currencies and derives six design principles from a literature review, an analysis of 16 community currency projects and an interview with a community currency project manager at the end of the project's life. The design principles serve as a basis for establishing resilient and scalable DCCs. They contribute to the limited IS research on phenomena of social sustainability and have major practical implications when implemented in existing community currency systems.

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Prescriptive Knowledge in IS Research: Conceptualizing Design Principles in Terms of Materiality, Action, and Boundary Conditions

Cited by 154 publications

References 30 publications

Exploring Divergent and Convergent Production in Idea Evaluation: Implications for Designing Group Creativity Support Systems

Exploring Divergent and Convergent Production in Idea Evaluation: Implications for Designing Group Creativity Support Systems

Guidelines for Establishing Instantiation Validity in IT Artifacts: A Survey of IS Research

Design Principles for Digital Community Currencies

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