[AISWorld] EJIS and the Design Science Stepchild

[Richard Baskerville]

Dear Colleagues,

The pressures to publish unfold differently in different regions.  In 
the German-speaking IS research communities, 111 professors signed a 
memorandum dealing with principles for design science research.  This 
"manifesto" unleashed an intense German debate about the relation and 
value of design science versus behavioral research.  In the 
forthcoming February 2011 issue of EJIS, we publish an editorial that 
provides and overview of this debate ("The inflation of academic 
intellectual capital: the case for design science research in Europe"):

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/ejis201057a.pdf

We also publish an English translation of the memorandum ("Memorandum 
on design-oriented information systems research"):

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/ejis201055a.pdf

Because the memorandum asserts a publication bias exists among 
leading IS journals against design science research, we also publish 
a rebuttal by Richard Baskerville, Kalle Lyytinen, Samba Sambamurthy 
and Detmar Straub ("A response to the design-oriented information 
systems research memorandum"):

  http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/ejis201056a.pdf

Because such debates are familiar in many other parts of the world, 
but so rarely captured in print, Palgrave Macmillan and the OR 
Society have made the advance, full-length copies of these articles 
available free-of-charge from the EJIS website at the links 
above.  We trust the Germanic discourse will inform globally.

Richard Baskerville, EIC EJIS

(ps.  suspicious of email links?  Google "EJIS" and select "Advance 
online publication" from the EJIS homepage.  /r)

// Richard Baskerville, CIS Dept., Georgia State University
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