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- articleJanuary 2015
Going back to basics in design science: from the information technology artifact to the information systems artifact
The concept of the 'information technology IT artifact' plays a central role in the information systems IS research community's discourse on design science. We pose the alternative concept of the 'IS artifact', unpacking what has been called the IT ...
- articleJanuary 2015
The concept of 'IT artifact' has outlived its usefulness and should be retired now
Vastly inconsistent definitions of the term "the IT artifact" in leading journals and conferences demonstrate why it no longer means anything in particular and should be retired from the active IS lexicon. Examples from the literature show why artifact-...