Design science and the accumulation of knowledge in the information systems discipline

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Niederman, Fred ^a   March, Salvatore T ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Design science; IS artifacts; IS behavioral research performance; Performance; Philosophy of IS

Indexed keywords

DESIGN SCIENCE; IS ARTIFACTS; PERFORMANCE; PHILOSOPHY OF IS; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE;

DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84859725573     PISSN: 2158656X     EISSN: 21586578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2151163.2151164     Document Type: Review

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