ICIS 2008 panel report: Design science in information systems: Hegemony, Bandwagon, or new wave?

Abstract

In the past few years, design science has become a topic of increasing importance, especially in the North American academic IS community. Some observers see a new hegemony in the process of forming. Others dispute that but suggest that design science is merely the latest bandwagon rolling through the IS domain. A panel held at the 2008 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) debated the many different views of design science prevalent in the IS community. This paper reports on the panel discussions. It will attempt to position design science from a variety of perspectives, including the North American and the European views, the latter with a long tradition of design-based IS scholarship. Copyright © 2009 by the Association for Information Systems.