《对在电子设计科学的影响电子商务的研究与实践》.pdf

THE IMPACT OF DESIGN SCIENCE ON E- COMMERCE RESEARCH AND PRACTICE Nicholas L Ball Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota nball@csom.umn.edu ABSTRACT With the promises of e-commerce have come problems and opportunities for researchers and practitioners. One of these opportunities is taking a design science approach to e-commerce research. The argument is made that design science contributes to the theory in business school research. Contributions of design science to the research and practice of e-commerce are categorized into artifacts that aid e-commerce practitioners, artifacts that aid e-commerce researchers, and theories related to these artifacts. However, the design science approach introduces limitations such as the perishability of design science artifacts, and the time it takes to develop an artifact to the point it is useful for practice. Keywords: Design science, contribution of theory, e-commerce, artifact, Internet agent, systems development methodology I. INTRODUCTION The excitement about e-commerce for both practitioners and researchers is the result of technologies that promise to add significant value to the firms that adopt them. Much of this excitement is not concerned with what already happened; but with what is expected to happen in the future. Traditionally business researchers waited until new technologies were created and implemented before they tested how the technologies impact commerce. Although valuable ins ights are provided to practice from this traditional approach, such research does not ameli