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Vorschlag für Komponenten von Methodendesigntheorien

Steigerung der Nutzbarkeit von Methodendesignartefakten

Proposal for Components of Method Design Theories

Increasing the Utility of Method Design Artefacts

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Gregor und Jones haben, aufbauend auf Theoriekonzepten der Verhaltensforschung und früheren Publikationen, Komponenten von Designtheorien vorgeschlagen. Ihre Designtheoriestruktur behandelt IT-Artefakte im Allgemein und ist nicht auf einen bestimmten Typ wie z. B. Konstrukte, Modelle, Methoden oder Instanziierungen zugeschnitten. Ihre Arbeit ist ein wichtiger Beitrag zur wissenschaftlichen Diskussion über Designtheorien. Die Autoren bauen darauf auf und nehmen an, dass spezialisierte Designtheoriestrukturen für unterschiedliche Artefakttypen die Nützlichkeit, Nutzbarkeit und Akzeptanz der Komponenten für Wissenschaft und Praxis weiter steigern. Sie haben alle von Gregor und Jones publizierten Komponenten analysiert und schlagen spezifische Verfeinerungen für Methodendesignartefakte vor, wo es passend erscheint. Für jede Komponente leiten sie Evaluationskriterien ab und präsentieren Beispiele publizierter Methoden, die die Kriterien erfüllen. Ihrer Ansicht nach wird der Beitrag von Methodendesignartefakten zum Wissensbasis durch die Formulierung von Methodendesigntheorien nach der vorgeschlagenen Struktur gesteigert.

Abstract

Gregor and Jones have proposed components for design theories, building on theory concepts from behavioural sciences and prior publications. Their design theory structure addresses IT artefacts in general, not specific to any type, such as constructs, models, methods or instantiations. Their work is an important contribution to the academic discussion of design theories. The authors are building on this and believe that specialised design theory structures for different types of artefacts further increases utility, usability and acceptance of the components for both academia and practice. They have analysed each of the components published by Gregor and Jones and proposed refinements specific to method design artefacts wherever applicable. For each component, they derive evaluation criteria and present examples of method publications fulfilling the criteria. They argue that by presenting method design theories according to this structure the contribution of method design artefacts to the body of knowledge will increase.

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Offermann, P., Blom, S., Levina, O. et al. Vorschlag für Komponenten von Methodendesigntheorien. WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK 52, 287–297 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11576-010-0239-x

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