BIBLIOS

Document type
Journal articles

Document subtype
Full paper

Title
Construction of Design Science Research Questions

Participants in the publication
Nguyen Hoang Thuan (Author)
Andreas Drechsler (Author)
Pedro Antunes (Author)
Dep. Informática
LASIGE

Summary
Posing research questions is a fundamental step to guide and direct knowledge development in research. In design science research (DSR), research questions are important to define the scope and the modes of inquiry, characterize the artifacts, and communicate the contributions. Despite the importance of research questions, there are few guidelines on how to construct suitable DSR research questions. We fill this gap by exploring ways of constructing DSR research questions and analyzing the research questions in a sample of 104 DSR publications. The results show that about two thirds of the analyzed DSR publications actually use research questions to link their problem statements to research approaches and that most of the questions are aimed at problem-solving. Based on our analysis, we derive a typology of DSR question formulation to provide guidelines and patterns that help researchers formulate research questions during their DSR projects’ duration.


Where published
Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Publication Identifiers
ISSN - 1529-3181

Publisher
Association for Information Systems


Document Identifiers
DOI - https://doi.org/10.17705/1cais.04420
URL - http://dx.doi.org/10.17705/1cais.04420

Rankings
CORE A (2010) - - Information Systems
SCOPUS Q2 (2019) - 2.9 - Information Systems
SCIMAGO Q2 (2019) - 0.617 - Information Systems (Q2)
Google Metrics (2022) - 30

Notes
ABDC A.