Management Design Theories
This paper elaborates a design science approach for management planning anchored to the concept of a management design theory. Unlike the notions of design theories arising from information systems, management design theories can appear as a system of technological rules, much as a system of hypothe...
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| author | Pries-Heje, J. Baskerville, Richard |
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| description | This paper elaborates a design science approach for management planning anchored to the concept of a management design theory. Unlike the notions of design theories arising from information systems, management design theories can appear as a system of technological rules, much as a system of hypotheses or propositions can embody scientific theories. The paper illustrates this form of management design theories with three grounded cases. These grounded cases include a software process improvement study, a user involvement study, and an organizational change study. Collectively these studies demonstrate how design theories founded on technological rules can not only improve the design of information systems, but that these concepts have great practical value for improving the framing of strategic organizational design decisions about such systems. Each case is either grounded in an empirical sense, that is to say, actual practice, or it is grounded to practices described extensively in the practical literature. Such design theories will help managers more easily approach complex, strategic decisions. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-33632022-12-09T07:12:35Z Management Design Theories Pries-Heje, J. Baskerville, Richard Jan Pries-Heje John Venable Deborah Bunker Nancy L. Russo Janice I. DeGross This paper elaborates a design science approach for management planning anchored to the concept of a management design theory. Unlike the notions of design theories arising from information systems, management design theories can appear as a system of technological rules, much as a system of hypotheses or propositions can embody scientific theories. The paper illustrates this form of management design theories with three grounded cases. These grounded cases include a software process improvement study, a user involvement study, and an organizational change study. Collectively these studies demonstrate how design theories founded on technological rules can not only improve the design of information systems, but that these concepts have great practical value for improving the framing of strategic organizational design decisions about such systems. Each case is either grounded in an empirical sense, that is to say, actual practice, or it is grounded to practices described extensively in the practical literature. Such design theories will help managers more easily approach complex, strategic decisions. 2010 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3363 10.1007/978-3-642-12113-5_16 Springer restricted |
| spellingShingle | Pries-Heje, J. Baskerville, Richard Management Design Theories |
| title | Management Design Theories |
| title_full | Management Design Theories |
| title_fullStr | Management Design Theories |
| title_full_unstemmed | Management Design Theories |
| title_short | Management Design Theories |
| title_sort | management design theories |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3363 |