“…The potential of critical realism for IS design science research has already been discussed in the IS literature (Carlsson, 2006(Carlsson, , 2010Carlsson et al, 2011;Koponen, 2009;Uppström, 2017). Koponen (2009) argue that critical realism meets the underlying philosophy for design science, as critical realism has implication for what can be said about both the design product and the design process.…”