I A Framework for Design Science.- 1 What is Design Science?.- 2 Research Goals and Research Questions.- II The Design Cycle.- 3 The Design Cycle.- 4 Stakeholder and Goal Analysis.- 5 Implementation Evaluation and Problem Investigation.- 6 Requirements Specification.- 7 Treatment Validation.- III Theoretical Frameworks.- 8 Conceptual Frameworks.- 9 Scientific Theories.- IV The Empirical Cycle.- 10 The Empirical Cycle.- 11 Research Design.- 12 Descriptive Inference Design.- 13 Statistical Inference Design.- 14 Abductive Inference Design.- 15 Analogic Inference Design.- V Some Research Methods.- 16 A Roadmap of Research Methods.- 17 Observational Case Studies.- 18 Single-case Mechanism Experiments.- 19 Technical Action Research.- 20 Statistical Difference-Making Experiments.- A Checklist for the Design Cycle.- B Checklist for the Empirical Cycle.
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