Designing the Information Systems Artefact - Typology, Architecture, Abstraction, Collaborative Evolution and Design Patterns

This book provides essential methodological guidance on IS artifacts to address key challenges in Design Science Research (DSR). As a foundation for understanding and categorizing DSR artifacts, it proposes a more differentiated, empirically justified DSR artifact typology. Additionally, it presents an artifact type-agnostic architecture model for DSR project knowledge, offering concrete recommendations for researchers and practitioners alike. As most DSR artifacts exist on a wide range of abstraction levels, an artifact type-agnostic perspective of abstraction is presented and a set of fundamental generalization and contextualization operations is proposed. The concept of managed evolution and insights from tension theory are used to propose a collaboration model, fostering effective interaction between researchers and practitioners in DSR. Finally, by associating empirically validated classes of functional requirements with solution classes, candidates for general constructional patterns are developed. All chapters share a contemporary understanding of DSR artifacts as complex combinations of IT, organizational, and use elements ranging from algorithms to informal interventions in organizations. These artifacts are based on both descriptive knowledge and empirical justifications (or ideally both) and are exemplified by contextualized instantiations that solve situated problems in organizations or administrations.
This book provides a unified and practical approach to advancing DSR, offering insights for both advanced academic researchers and industry practitioners whose work involves IS artifacts.

List of contents

Typology of IS Artefacts - Providing an Organizing Foundation for Design Science Research Outcomes.- The Architecture of Project Design Knowledge in Design Science Research.- Abstraction and Abstraction Levels in Design Science Research.- Collaborative Evolution of the IS Artefact - Negotiating Research/Practice Tensions.- Function-Construction Patterns for Designing IS Artefacts.

Product details

• Assisted by: Robert Winter (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 11.12.2025
• EAN: 9783031983108
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3198310-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Illustrations: Approx. 200 p.
• Series: Progress in IS
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Application software; Design, Netzwerk-Hardware, Theoretische Informatik, Design Patterns, e-Commerce and e-Business, Theory of Computation, Design, industrielle und kommerzielle Kunst, Illustration, E-Commerce: geschäftliche Aspekte, Computer Communication Networks, Business Information Systems, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Design methodology, Design Science Research, Managed Design Evolution, Artefact Abstraction Levels, Design Knowledge, Artefact Typologyge