The Ideology of Design: A Critical Appreciation of the Design Science Discourse in Information Systems and Wirtschaftsinformatik

摘要: The discipline of information systems (IS) has been likened to a ‘fragmented adhocracy’ (Landry a. Banville 1992, p. 82). It emerged from number diverse ‘reference disciplines’ (Lee 1991; Lyytinen King 2004; Hirschheim Klein 2003) whose understanding research, truth and practice share little common ground. To some degree this may be good thing because it ensures that debates in IS continue lively interesting (Paul 2002). On the other hand, there is certain amount confusion among practitioners academics as what they are supposed allowed do. One consequence continuous struggle about criteria for evaluation research output evidenced by debate on rigour relevance Communications AIS.