Soft design science methodology

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Baskerville, Richard ^a   Pries Heje, Jan ^b   Venable, John ^c  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action research; Design science research; Research methodology; Soft design science; Soft systems methodology

Indexed keywords

ACTION RESEARCH; DESIGN SCIENCE RESEARCH; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SOFT DESIGN SCIENCE; SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY;

BIOLOGY; DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 70350635454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555619.1555631     Document Type: Conference Paper

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