The research method we need or deserve? A literature review of the design science research landscape

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dc.contributor.authorNagle, Tadhg
dc.contributor.authorDoyle, Cathal
dc.contributor.authorAlhassan, Ibrahim M.
dc.contributor.authorSammon, David
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-28T15:22:26Z
dc.date.available2022-09-28T15:22:26Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-27
dc.date.updated2022-09-28T15:12:16Z
dc.description.abstractSenior Scholars have made a concerted effort to help researchers adopt and top-ranked IS journals publish design science research (DSR). However, DSR continues to underperform, and the support that Senior Scholars have provided to it in editorials and exemplars has created both confusion and clarity. In this study, we report on a descriptive literature review that we conducted to bring empirical context and insight to the many discussions that Senior Scholars have had on presenting, implementing, and contributing to DSR. In particular, we reviewed 111 papers in the AIS Senior Scholars’ basket of eight journals and found significant transparency issues that have led to methodological slurring. We also found that, while DSR has produced research with a strong focus on utility and usefulness, it has done so through generalized problems and solutions and, thus, overlooked the messy complexity of real IS problems and the actual use of proposed solutions. Finally, we found little evidence to support theory obsession in DSR, a topic of concern for the wider IS research community.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationNagle, T., Doyle, C., Alhassan, I. M. and Sammon, D. (2022) ‘The research method we need or deserve? A literature review of the design science research landscape’, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 50(1), pp. 358–395. doi: 10.17705/1CAIS.05015.en
dc.identifier.doi10.17705/1CAIS.05015en
dc.identifier.endpage395en
dc.identifier.issn1529-3181
dc.identifier.journaltitleCommunications of the Association for Information Systemsen
dc.identifier.startpage358en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/13694
dc.identifier.volume50en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAssociation for Information Systemsen
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.05015
dc.rights© 2022 the Association for Information Systems. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and full citation on the first page.en
dc.subjectDesign science researchen
dc.subjectLiterature reviewen
dc.subjectMethodological slurringen
dc.subjectOpen scienceen
dc.subjectPractical impacten
dc.subjectProblem abstractionen
dc.subjectProblem solvingen
dc.subjectResearch transparencyen
dc.subjectTheory obsessionen
dc.titleThe research method we need or deserve? A literature review of the design science research landscapeen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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