DSR Methods:About

Research Process Wiki

Scientific methods are core for any scientific discipline. By defining a standardized set of research activities, they enable researchers to build scientific knowledge. They explain how to make valid observations, how to interpret results, and how to generalize those results. Furthermore, scientific methods allow other researchers to test pre-existing theories and prior findings independently.

In this research process wiki we are going to make research methods more accessible for colleagues, and thus further foster diversity and quality of our research. It will also allow further development of existing and emergent research methods and processes. We believe that collective improvement can lead to complete and accurate research method descriptions and also supports on one hand further development, as well as the acceptance by other researchers of methods and the underlying processes. Furthermore, this wiki will make it easier for researchers to understand and conduct various research methods in IS. This collaborative platform provides an overview of well established, state of the art, and common grounded research methods. In turn, this will safeguard the quality and improve the contribution of findings in research projects.

This site is built on user contributions. Please share your knowledge and contribute! This site is maintained as an ongoing project at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University of Liechtenstein. All textual content of Research Process Wiki is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License(CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License(GFDL).

Department Editors

N.N.	N.N.	N.N.	N.N.	N.N.
Department Editor Design Science Research	Department Editor Experimental Research	Department Editor Survey-based Research	Department Editor Qualitative Research	Department Editor Literature Review Research

Editorial Board

Jan vom Brocke	Alexander Maedche
Co-Editor	Co-Editor
University of Liechtenstein	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Operational Editor

Michael Gau

Research Software Engineer

University of Liechtenstein Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Acknowledgments

THANK YOU!! to the individuals who have contributed to pages or added new pages to this wiki and made this knowledge base even more valuable.