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Relevance through Consortium Research? Findings from an Expert Interview Study
ISSN
0302-9743
ISBN
978-3-642-13334-3
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2010-06-04
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Research Team
IWI2, CDQ
Abstract
The Information Systems (IS) community is discussing the relevance of its research. Design-oriented IS research is considered a promising approach since it combines practical relevance and scientific rigor. Only limited guidance, however, is available for the researcher to gain access to and exchange knowledge from the practitioners’ domain. This is surprising insofar as the IS “ecosystem” is under change and research and innovation largely takes place in the practitioners’ community. Consortium research addresses the issue of getting access to and exchanging knowledge from the practitioners’ community. It supports the development of artifacts and is characterized by close cooperation between the university and its partners in all stages of the design-oriented research process, practical validation of research results with partner companies, and a focus on the practical benefits of the research, with all research activities being funded by the consortium partners. The research question posed in this paper is what consortium research contributes to design-oriented IS research against the background of the aforementioned phenomena. The paper presents the findings from an expert interview study among professors of the German-speaking IS community in Europe.
Language
English
Keywords
CDQ
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Global Perspectives on Design Science Research
Publisher
Springer
Publisher place
Berlin, Heidelberg
Volume
LNCS 6105
Start page
16
End page
30
Pages
15
Event Title
5th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST 2010)
Event Location
St.Gallen
Event Date
04.-05.06.2010
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
213113