TY - CHAP
T1 - Situating Case Studies Within the Design Science Research Paradigm
T2 - 17th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises
AU - Costa, Eric
AU - Soares, António Lucas
AU - Sousa, Jorge Pinho de
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - A rigorous evaluation of an artifact is one of the fundamental aspects to be considered in Design Science Research projects. This evaluation part becomes even more difficult when a large variety of artifacts must be designed for a project. This can be a challenge for the field of Collaborative Networks, which involves knowledge from several scientific disciplines. Case studies are one of the evaluation methods in Design Science Research that are used for an ex-post evaluation of artifacts. However, we argue that this method can also be used for the ex-ante evaluation, mainly when multidisciplinary research is being carried out. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to present and discuss a multidisciplinary project of Collaborative Networks using case studies before and after the design of the artifacts. On top of the Design Science Research guidelines, this research is supported by knowledge from Business and Manage‐ ment Studies on how to effectively design and perform Case Study Research for artifact evaluation.
AB - A rigorous evaluation of an artifact is one of the fundamental aspects to be considered in Design Science Research projects. This evaluation part becomes even more difficult when a large variety of artifacts must be designed for a project. This can be a challenge for the field of Collaborative Networks, which involves knowledge from several scientific disciplines. Case studies are one of the evaluation methods in Design Science Research that are used for an ex-post evaluation of artifacts. However, we argue that this method can also be used for the ex-ante evaluation, mainly when multidisciplinary research is being carried out. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to present and discuss a multidisciplinary project of Collaborative Networks using case studies before and after the design of the artifacts. On top of the Design Science Research guidelines, this research is supported by knowledge from Business and Manage‐ ment Studies on how to effectively design and perform Case Study Research for artifact evaluation.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-45390-3_45
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-45390-3_45
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-3-319-45390-3
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 531
EP - 544
BT - Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World
A2 - Afsarmanesh, Hamideh
A2 - Camarinha-Matos, Luis M
A2 - Lucas Soares, António
PB - Springer International Publishing AG
CY - Cham
Y2 - 3 October 2016 through 5 October 2016
ER -