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DESRIST 2011: Service-Oriented Perspectives in Design Science Research pp 153–165Cite as

Design Science Research Demonstrators for Punctuation – The Establishment of a Service Ecosystem

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Design Science Research (DSR) is concerned with demonstrating design principles. In order to prove the utility of these principles, design ideas are materialized into artifacts and put into an environment sufficient to host the testing of these principles. When DSR is used in combination with action research, constraints in the environment may restrain researchers to fully inscribe or test such principles. In this paper it is argued that scholars pursuing DSR has paid insufficient attention to the type of change necessary in the local practice. We draw upon theories on IS change as punctuated equilibrium to illustrate when DSR demonstrators can be used to make substantial contributions to local practice as well as to the scientific body of knowledge.

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    Daniel Rudmark & Mikael Lind

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    Daniel Rudmark & Mikael Lind

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Rudmark, D., Lind, M. (2011). Design Science Research Demonstrators for Punctuation – The Establishment of a Service Ecosystem. In: Jain, H., Sinha, A.P., Vitharana, P. (eds) Service-Oriented Perspectives in Design Science Research. DESRIST 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6629. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20633-7_11

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