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dc.contributor.authorMackrell, Dale
dc.contributor.authorNielsen, Sue
dc.contributor.editorJudith Molka-Danielsen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:03:02Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:03:02Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.modified2010-01-20T06:39:26Z
dc.identifier.refurihttp://www.himolde.no/index.cfm/pageID/2483.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/28363
dc.description.abstractMultiple standpoints on design science exist. In this paper, the authors espouse a pluralist approach to design science, allowing an interpretive view of the human factors to complement the more prescriptive view of the IT artefact. To better comprehend the processes of IT design, development, practice, and incremental improvement, a study of CottonLOGIC, an agricultural decision support system (DSS) for the Australian cotton industry, was reassessed from a design science framework. In the study, the duality of technology, Orlikowski's (1992) adaptation of the social science theory, structuration theory, was used as the overarching perspective to overcome the dichotomy between technology as an objective force and technology as a socially constructed product which the study found to be inextricably linked. The contribution of the paper is to advocate a pluralist approach in design science thus allowing both the immediate situation and the wider context of agricultural institutions and environment to be taken into account in the interpretation of the users' proposals for improvements to the DSS, while not ignoring the functionality of the IT artefact.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherIRIS Association
dc.publisher.placeMolde, Sweden
dc.publisher.urihttps://communities.aisnet.org/scandinavia/home
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofconferencenameIRIS32 MOLDE NORWAY
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitleIRIS 32 Molde Norway: Groups and Papers
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom2009-08-09
dc.relation.ispartofdateto2009-08-12
dc.relation.ispartoflocationMolde Sweden
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchDecision Support and Group Support Systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode080605
dc.titleTowards a Pluralist Approach in Design Science: Case Study of an Agricultural DSS
dc.typeConference output
dc.type.descriptionE1 - Conferences
dc.type.codeE - Conference Publications
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, Dept of Employment Relations and Human Resources
gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2009.The attached file is posted here with permission of the copyright owner[s] for your personal use only. No further distribution permitted. For information about this conference please refer to the publisher's website or contact the author[s].
gro.date.issued2009
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorNielsen, Sue
gro.griffith.authorMackrell, Dale C.


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