Design science in decision support systems research: An assessment using the hevner, march, park, and ram guidelines

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 923-949

  Arnott, David ^a   Pervan, Graham ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business intelligence; Data warehousing; Decision support systems; Design science; Executive information systems; Group support systems; Review

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; DATA WAREHOUSES; DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BIBLIOMETRIC; BUSINESS-INTELLIGENCE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DESIGN SCIENCE; DESIGN-SCIENCE RESEARCHES; EXECUTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GROUP SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DESIGN SCIENCE RESEARCHES; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; SYSTEMS RESEARCH;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84871635305     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00315     Document Type: Article

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