Towards a Method for Design Principle Development in Information Systems

A central goal of doing research is to make findings available to the academic and practitioner community in order to extend the current knowledge base. The notion of how to generalize, abstract, and codify knowledge gained in design endeavors is a vital issue in design science, especially in the strand of design theory. Design principles provide a medium to make such design knowledge available to others and to make it transferable from a single application onto more scenarios that are subject to similar boundary conditions. The study proposes a preliminary method for the development of design principles based on a structured literature review and the inductive derivation of methodological components from it. The purpose of the method is to give researchers and practitioners executable steps to generate design principles.