Advances in Theories, Methods and Philosophy
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Paper Number
1422
Paper Type
short
Description
With the incredible advancements in technology, there is a high chance that design science research (DSR) will gain momentum in the realm of IS research. However, since these technologies have become also increasingly more disruptive, there is a need to mitigate and prevent some of the adverse effects in DSR. Here, ethical discourses, as well as ethical design principles, could be beneficial. Unfortunately, IS research and especially DSR have hitherto taken a superficial perspective on ethics and there exists no schema nor framework that explains how academics can address ethical issues. It is against this backdrop that we develop a conceptual map and framework on how to engage systematically and coherently in ethical discourses and derive ethical design principles. Furthermore, we propose a novel type of design principles: negative design principles. These principles encapsulate additional ways to express normative, e.g., ethical statements and additional means towards responsible and accountable DSR.
Recommended Citation
Durani, Khalid; Eckhardt, Andreas; and Kollmer, Tim, "Towards Ethical Design Science Research" (2021). ICIS 2021 Proceedings. 3.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2021/adv_in_theories/adv_in_theories/3
Towards Ethical Design Science Research
With the incredible advancements in technology, there is a high chance that design science research (DSR) will gain momentum in the realm of IS research. However, since these technologies have become also increasingly more disruptive, there is a need to mitigate and prevent some of the adverse effects in DSR. Here, ethical discourses, as well as ethical design principles, could be beneficial. Unfortunately, IS research and especially DSR have hitherto taken a superficial perspective on ethics and there exists no schema nor framework that explains how academics can address ethical issues. It is against this backdrop that we develop a conceptual map and framework on how to engage systematically and coherently in ethical discourses and derive ethical design principles. Furthermore, we propose a novel type of design principles: negative design principles. These principles encapsulate additional ways to express normative, e.g., ethical statements and additional means towards responsible and accountable DSR.
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