THEORETICAL STABILITY OF INFORMATION SYSTEMSDESIGN THEORY EVALUATIONSBASED UPON HABERMAS’S DISCOURSE THEORY

A challenge in Information Systems Design Science Research (ISDSR) is the evaluation of constructedInformation Systems Design Theories. March and Smith (1995, p. 254) state that “significant difficulties… result from the fact that artifact performance is related to the environment in which it operates.”Therefore, it is nearly impossible to achieve stable knowledge of the utility of ISDSR artifacts.This is a severe problem because—as in each scientific discipline—it should be able to show that thereis progress in ISDSR. In this paper, we propose an approach for improving the stability of knowledgeof the utility of ISDSR artifacts...