Leveraging the synergies between design science and behavioral science research methods

SG Sutton; V Arnold; P Collier; SA Leech

Journal article

Leveraging the synergies between design science and behavioral science research methods

SG Sutton, V Arnold, P Collier, SA Leech

International Journal of Accounting Information Systems | Published : 2021

DOI: 10.1016/j.accinf.2021.100536

Abstract

For over two decades, information systems researchers have grappled with defining what constitutes good design science research. With too many older papers simply documenting the development of systems without a clear message of the contribution to science, design science fell out of favor with the information systems discipline. With the emergence of intelligent systems and the re-shaping of knowledge work, substantial effort has recently focused on articulating what constitutes a design science research contribution. In recent years, however, the discussion on the role of behavioral theory and behavioral research in complementing design science research has faded away. In this paper, we ar..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Stewart Leech Author

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Funding Acknowledgements

We owe a tremendous amount of gratitude to the people who supported the INSOLVE Research Program. We thank the Australian Research Council who provided four discovery grants totaling approximately $650,000 without which the project would never have been possible. We thank Nicole Herbert (University of Tasmania) that kept the initial version of INSOLVE working on its expert system shell during multiple updates. We thank Andrew Vincent who was the Research Fellow on the final grant and kept the servers running the platforms and oversaw the INCASE development. We thank Sanjev Rajendron who led the programming of INCASE. We thank Marcus Nyeholt who led the programming of the hierarchical team-based intelligent system (HTIS) version of INSOLVE. This paper has benefitted during its evolution from participants' feedback at the 2018 International Symposium on Accounting Information Systems and a 2020 NHH Norwegian School of Economics DigAudit Research Group Workshop. The authors also thank Sev Grabski (editor) for his feedback on an early draft of the paper.