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Memorandum on design-oriented information systems research

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European Journal of Information Systems

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Information Systems Research (“Wirtschaftsinformatik”) basically follows two research approaches: the behavioristic approach and the design-oriented approach. In this memorandum, 10 authors propose principles of design-oriented information systems research. Moreover, the memorandum is supported by 111 full professors from the German-speaking scientific community, who with their signature advocate the principles specified therein.

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  1. University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Hubert Österle

  2. ERCIS, University of Münster, Germany

    Jörg Becker

  3. University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Ulrich Frank

  4. Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany

    Thomas Hess

  5. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Dimitris Karagiannis

  6. Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany

    Helmut Krcmar

  7. Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany

    Peter Loos

  8. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany

    Peter Mertens

  9. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Andreas Oberweis

  10. University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

    Elmar J Sinz

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  1. Hubert Österle
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  2. Jörg Becker
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  3. Ulrich Frank
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  4. Thomas Hess
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  9. Andreas Oberweis
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  10. Elmar J Sinz
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Correspondence to Hubert Österle.

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(This memorandum was originally published in German in the Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (zfbf), Volume 62, pp. 662–672 and is translated and reprinted here with the kind permission of Fachverlag der Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt GmbH. The authors would like to acknowledge the generous assistance of EJIS Senior Associate Editor Nicholas Romano who helped with the translation from the German.)

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Österle, H., Becker, J., Frank, U. et al. Memorandum on design-oriented information systems research. Eur J Inf Syst 20, 7–10 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1057/ejis.2010.55

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