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Design Science Research (DSR) is now an accepted research paradigm in the Information Systems
(IS) field, aiming at developing purposeful IT artifacts and knowledge about the design of IT artifacts. A rich body
of knowledge on approaches, methods, and frameworks supports researchers in conducting DSR projects. While
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... Design science research (DSR) stands as an important part of information systems (IS) research (Baskerville, 2008;Gregor & Hevner, 2013;Iivari, 2015;vom Brocke et al., 2017) and has gained increased attention in recent years (Leukel et al., 2014;Peffers et al., 2018;Stein et al., 2014). DSR projects evolve around iteratively designing and evaluating artifacts as solutions for prevailing problems (Hevner et al., 2004;Iivari, 2015) and developing prescriptive knowledge about the effective design of such artifacts (Baskerville et al., 2018;Gregor, 2006). ...
Design science research (DSR) has been established as an essential part of information systems research. DSR can provide artificial solutions and prescriptive knowledge about how to solve problems relevant to our modern times. However, DSR has been reported to be in a state of "conceptual confusion." Thus, an ongoing and open discourse regarding how to overcome the causes of this confusion has arisen. Several causes and solutions have been proposed, ranging from conceptualizations of contributions, publication schemas, to the formulation of research strategies and genres. Prominently, the persisting confusion frequently leads editors and reviewers to assess the same study's merit substantially differently, depending on the individual editor's and reviewer's understanding of and preferences for DSR. Consequently, publishing DSR studies is challenging. Against this background, we propose DSR focus as a two-dimensional characteristic of a DSR study, comprising the two dimensions "contribution" and "research approach." Furthermore, we present a DSR focus matrix (DSRFM) as a framework and tool to describe the DSR focus of a study and identify relevant seminal work. Following this framework enables a grounded discussion with editors and reviewers, thus preventing diverting understandings and preferences that may skew the assessment of a study. We demonstrate this ability by positioning research strategies, genres, and seminal works within the matrix's quadrants.
... The area of digital innovation includes information digitization, innovation management with a greater variety and reach of disruption across organizational limitations, digitally-enabled generation, and new digital technologies. It has been observed that digital innovation is viewed across a wide range of disciplines as essential importance (Vom Brocke et al., 2017). Resultantly, the two aspects of privacy and security systems have become more important to protect and control the activities and services provided by the internet. ...
The ancient city of Petra is well known for its rock-carved structure and water traction canal system. This study examines the chances of employing the Greenstone system to create a digital tourism library for the historical city of Petra. In this context, the study has derived three objectives such as; briefly explain the stages of building a digital library using the Greenstone system, investigate students' opinions about the characteristics of the Greenstone system, and investigate students' beliefs about the materials and information that should be included in the digital library. The study used an experimental approach by creating a small-sized digital library to determine the software's suitability. A survey questionnaire containing two sections and 34 questions was distributed among 50 participants. Selected participants were students of Al Hussein Bin Talal University. The results showed that the Greenstone system is particularly suitable for building digital libraries when some of the existing problems have been solved, there is great enthusiasm for establishing the Petra Digital Library, and information about what tourists contribute to tourism will significantly help get virtual development. It is expected to link the library with other entities through a network to share metadata between universities. This study encouraged digital library projects and reflections on the Greenstone system to identify its effectiveness in digitally managing libraries. The study concluded, creation of digital library at Jordan's Al Hussein Bin Talal University Library will provide access to publications about Petra City and other information resources that are not available in print.
... However, compared to other fields there is less tool support available for DSR [5]. In qualitative research, for instance, researchers follow specific procedures and are required to document clearly the chain of evidence and report on criteria like intercoder reliability [17]. ...
... MyDesignProcess.com (MDP) is an existing and publicly available online platform that supports design science researchers managing, documenting, and executing their DSR projects in a complete, correct, comprehensive, open, identifiable, secure, and collaborative way, while also making their research process explicit and transparent for other researchers [5]. However, documenting is both laborious [21] and timeconsuming. ...
... For example, in the field of medicine where comprehensive and precise documentation is essential, studies showed that up to 28% of a working day is spent on the documentation process [1]. In DSR, documentation is not as critical as in the field of medicine, but it does have an important role to play in understanding the design process and supporting reproducibility of artifacts [5,14]. Tool support in DSR should not only enable the documentation of the design processes, but also decrease the efforts of researchers and increase the benefits of providing documentation. ...
Design Science Research (DSR) provides a rich body of frameworks, approaches, and methods to support researchers in conducting DSR projects. However, there is little tool support and guidance for effectively documenting DSR processes. In this article, we present a prototypical implementation of a conversational agent called "DSR Buddy" that is integrated into the existing and publicly available MyDesingProcess.com platform. DSR Buddy aims to decrease efforts of DSR project documentation and increase benefits for researchers by providing intuitive DSR activity documentation support. We present an initial set of design features that we have implemented in the form of the DSR Buddy. Additionally, we illustrate the potential of our prototypical implementation by applying it to an exemplary DSR project.
... Further a checklist outlining what to consider in defining and presenting the DSR project is provided, and guidance on how to communicate and present DSR (Cahenzli et al. 2021). We also provide access to tools students can use to plan and document their design process (vom Brocke et al. 2017) and keep a journal of their DSR experience (vom Brocke et al. 2021). We continuously grow this toolbox of useful artifacts to support students in learning how to plan and conduct DSR to high standards. ...
Design science research (DSR) aims to generate knowledge about innovative solutions to real-world problems. A comparably new stream of research, DSR has matured methodically, and is increasingly catching the interest of researchers, specifically for its potential to contribute to problem solving in society and the economy. Since research methodology curricula develop slowly, however, DSR is still underrepresented in most curricula and courses on research design and methods, and we lack guidance on what and how to teach in a DSR course in a way that enables junior academics to conduct DSR according to high standards. We report on teaching DSR methodology both on PhD and Master levels and for both managerially and technically oriented student populations. Our interactive on-site and distance formats have been refined over 14 years. The PDW presents an effective syllabus, teaching material and experience from conducting over 25 courses with students from over 20 countries across all three geographic AIS regions.
... Authors adopt the steps for developing DPs. For example, [25] described [11]'s procedure for the development of DPs. Thereby, they used [11] as an illustrative example for their design instantiation. ...
Accumulating prescriptive design knowledge, such as design principles (DP), is one of the fundamental goals in design science research projects. As previous studies have examined the use of DPs in practice to advance the development and communication of such principles, we argue that this attention also needs to be paid to how and for what researchers (re-)use DPs. Hence, this paper explores DP usage in cumulative (information systems) research based on the analysis and coding of a sample of 114 articles with 226 in-text citations. In doing this, we aim at contributing to the valuable discourse on DP reuse and accumulation by focusing on usage in research, present preliminary types of DP usage extracted from cumulative literature, as well as raise the awareness for guiding user and designer in how to (re-)use and how to allow for reuse of DPs.
... Furthermore, there exists tool support for researchers to document and structure such DSR processes, for example, developed in the collaborative DSR research project MyDesignProcess.com [3]. ...
... Such shortcomings are addressed by distinct tools that have been designed for the purpose of documenting the research process, such as the tool MyDesignProess.com [3]. In order to demonstrate the idea of journaling the design process, we used the tool MyDesignProcess.com ...
... The performing aspect of the project is expressed through the different activities executed and captured during the project. Such activities can also contain subactivities in order to structure and organize the process of a DSR project [3]. The complete journal of a DSR project, or only parts of it, can be made publicly accessible and communicated to the community. ...
Design Science Research (DSR) is a highly context-dependent and iterative process. Design processes in DSR projects represent the actual strategy and execution of design knowledge inquiry and are typically unique. However, details of the actual design process are often lost as there is a lack of transparency in published DSR projects. In this research in progress paper, we present the idea of “journaling” the DSR process. We introduce the concept, showcase it with a conceptual framework, present practical applications, discuss implications and outline future research.
... Such a log file can, for instance, be provided in the appendix of an article. Also, appropriate tools have been developed by the DSR community (Morana et al., 2018;vom Brocke, Fettke, et al., 2017) to document and communicate the design process along the way. The tool MyDesignProcess.com ...
Design science research (DSR) is an established research paradigm aiming to create design knowledge on innovative solutions for real-world problems. As such, DSR has the potential to contribute to the solution of real-world problems of great societal value. In this article, we discuss how DSR can maximize such practical impact. Reflecting on our long-standing collaboration with the globally operating Hilti company, we report on a rich empirical case and derive principles in order to increase the practical relevance and societal contribution of DSR projects. We also derive quality criteria through which DSR articles can demonstrate practical relevance and societal value contribution.
... flags" OR detection). The ATLAS.ti software, a qualitative data analysis software that supports literature analysis [64], was used for analyzing the literature. • The first-round literature review yielded five results without duplicates. ...
Fraud is a significant challenge for organizations, as it is a serious problem with far-reaching consequences. It is estimated that every year, 5% of organizational revenue is lost due to fraud. Occupational fraud refers to a deliberate misuse of one's occupation for personal enrichment. Occupational fraud cases investigated in 125 countries in 2018 and 2019 involved funds that exceeded an estimated 3.6 billion U.S. dollars. Process-based fraud (PBF) is a type of occupational fraud that occurs in business processes and involves a deviation from standard operating procedures. Since business processes represent the work's logic, and through such processes, an organization’s strategy is executed, PBF hinders the achievement of organizational goals, increases costs, and damages customer experiences and relationships.
Therefore, as it is impossible to prevent PBF entirely, it needs to be detected. However, PBF detection metrics have not been sufficiently addressed in the literature. Existing metrics are incomplete, overlapping, scattered, and not standardized, while fraud continues, likely on a vast scale.
This research organizes, simplifies, and extends existing detection metrics for possible fraud in business processes by developing a taxonomy of PBF detection metrics. Taxonomy plays a vital role in research and management, as the classification of objects helps researchers and practitioners understand and explain complex domains.
In this research, design science research is applied, as it is well suited to human-made artifact development such as a taxonomy. First, a systematic literature review is performed on fraud detection metrics in business processes to survey the current state of fraud detection by focusing on PBF metrics, while including all relevant conceptual perspectives of PBF detection. Second, an enhanced taxonomy development method is proposed, which offers complete and actionable DSR research steps that novice researchers can easily implement. Third, a taxonomy of PBF detection metrics is developed. The taxonomy developed provides a holistic view and reveals the relevant dimensions, characteristics, and objects of the PBF detection metrics, with their relationships identified. It improves PBF detection in practice, solves the classification problem, and enhances PBF detection understanding. Fourth, the created taxonomy is employed as an underlying theory to extend, organize, and evaluate the PBF detection metrics.
The findings reveal four PBF detection dimensions with the following characteristics: (1) process perspective {time, function, data, resource, and location}, (2) presentation layer {the process’s map, stream, model, instance, and activity}, (3) fraud data scheme {anomalous, discrepant, missing, and wrong}, and (4) fraud domain {generic or specific}. Moreover, 41 PBF detection metrics are deduced from the developed taxonomy, and their application is presented.
The developed taxonomy offers a useful tool for anyone seeking to classify, develop, and evaluate PBF detection metrics. Additionally, it helps standardize the concepts of PBF detection metrics to ensure consistency among stakeholders. Furthermore, the developed metrics improve the detection of PBF as they provide a complete, validated, and standardized list of PBF detection metrics that includes all of the necessary PBF detection dimensions. It is expected that PBF detection stakeholders will apply the developed metrics in their practice to increase the effectiveness of the PBF detection process.
... In future work, one could investigate the (dis)advantages for transforming the POAR prototype into an online app for any device. In this case, one could use the recently developed DSR support tool (https://mydesignprocess.com) of vom Brocke et al 69 to guide the artifact development process. Next, the evaluation of actual tool usage over time implies gathering diverse data about user preferences. ...
While business process management (BPM) has become a recognized discipline, managers are still challenged to achieve an appropriate alignment between BPM their BPM needs and other management practices in the organization. Specifically, the aligned behavior and performance of employees and teams are crucial to reap the full benefits of BPM. To help managers face such alignment challenges, we have developed a qualitative decision support tool, called "process-oriented appraisals and rewards" (POAR), by combining design-science research with a strong qualitative approach. Our study contributes to the BPM and human resource management (HRM) disciplines by extending multifaceted knowledge, while also offering a practical tool for managers to support their decision making regarding a BPM-HRM alignment.
... In order to support concurrent design and evaluation, it is suggested to plan and document the build and evaluation activities in one. DSR tools have been developed (vom Brocke et al. 2017, Morana et al. 2018 to keep logs of the research process; such logs can complement a high-level list of research activities used to scope the DSR project in the process dimension. The process documented here may also include activities for theorizing about the design. ...
Design Science Research (DSR) is a problem-solving paradigm that seeks to enhance human knowledge via the creation of innovative artifacts. Simply stated, DSR seeks to enhance technology and science knowledge bases via the creation of innovative artifacts that solve problems and improve the environment in which they are instantiated. The results of DSR include both the newly designed artifacts and design knowledge (DK) that provides a fuller understanding via design theories of why the artifacts enhance (or, disrupt) the relevant application contexts. The goal of this introduction chapter is to provide a brief survey of DSR concepts for better understanding of the following chapters that present DSR case studies.
