Designing Organizational Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. The Contributions of Alessandro D’Atri to Organization and Information Systems Studies

   • Paolo Spagnoletti, Richard Baskerville, Marco De Marco

   Pages 1-18

3. Design Science Research Principles and Methods

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Design and Normative Claims in Organization Studies: A Methodological Proposal

      • Francesca Ricciardi

      Pages 21-34

   3. Design Science Research as Movement Between Individual and Generic Situation-Problem–Solution Spaces

      • Ilia Bider, Paul Johannesson, Erik Perjons

      Pages 35-61

   4. Restructuring the Design Science Research Knowledge Base

      • Robert Winter, Antonia Albani

      Pages 63-81

   5. Dealing with Critical IS Research: Artifacts, Drifts, Electronic Panopticon and Illusions of Empowerment

      • Marcello Martinez, Mario Pezzillo Iacono

      Pages 83-102

4. Design and Evaluation of IT Artifacts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. User Centered Systems Design: The Bridging Role of Justificatory Knowledge

      • Paolo Spagnoletti, Laura Tarantino

      Pages 105-121

   3. A Design Theory for Dynamic Competencies Mapping Systems

      • Luigi De Bernardis, Riccardo Maiolini

      Pages 123-141

   4. Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing Communities Design: A Cross Case Analysis

      • Francesca Cabiddu, Manuel Castriotta, Maria Chiara Di Guardo, Paola Floreddu

      Pages 143-155

   5. New Internet-Based Relationships Between Citizens and Governments in the Public Space: Challenges for an Integrated System Design

      • Alessio Maria Braccini, Tommaso Federici

      Pages 157-180

5. Design and Evaluation of Organizational Practices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Designing Teams for Enhancing Individual Added-Value Use of Technology

      • Stefano Basaglia, Leonardo Caporarello, Massimo Magni, Ferdinando Pennarola

      Pages 183-199

   3. Design Principles at the Edge of the Designable: Non-formal and Informal Learning in SMEs

      • Nunzio Casalino

      Pages 201-215

   4. Designing Innovative Learning Spaces in Higher Education at a Turning Point: Institutional Identities, Pervasive Smart Technologies and Organizational Learning

      • Chengzhi Peng

      Pages 217-244

   5. Performance Management Systems as Driver of Public Administration Improvement: A Dream?

      • Debora Tomasi, Stefano Scravaglieri, Maurizio Decastri

      Pages 245-263

6. Design and Evaluation of Managerial Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 265-265

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   2. Design on a Societal Scale: The Case of e-Government Strategic Planning

      • Carlo Batini, Gianluigi Viscusi, Marco Castelli

      Pages 267-283

   3. Towards the Redesign of e-Business Maturity Models for SMEs

      • Paolo Depaoli, Stefano Za

      Pages 285-300

​This book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Alessandro (Sandro) D'Atri, who passed away in April 2011. Professor D'Atri started his career as a brilliant scholar interested in theoretical computer science, databases and, more generally information processing systems. He journeyed far in various applications, such as human-computer interaction, human factors, ultimately arriving at business information systems and business organisation after more than 20 years of researc hbased on "problem solving". Professor D'Atri pursued the development of an interdisciplinary culture in which social sciences, systems design and human sciences are mutually integrated. Rather than retrospection, this book is aimed to advance in these directions and to stimulate a debate about the potential of design research in the field of information systems and organisation studies with an interdisciplinary approach. Each chapter has been selected by the Editorial Board following a double blind peer review process. The general criteria of privileging the variety of topics and the design science orientation and/or empirical works in which a design research approach is adopted to solve various field problems in the management area. In addition several chapters contribute to the meta-discourse on design science research. 

• Design Research
• Information Systems Development
• Innovation Management
• Organisational Intervention

• Dept. Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

  Richard Baskerville

• Università Cattolica, Milano, Italy

  Marco De Marco

• , CeRSI, LUISS Guido Carli, Roma, Italy

  Paolo Spagnoletti

Richard Baskerville is a Board of Advisors Professor of Information Systems (IS) at Georgia State University. His research regards security of IS, methods of IS design and development, and the interaction of IS and organizations. He is a Chartered Engineer and holds a Ph.D. from The London School of Economics, University of London. He is the outgoing Editor-in-Chief of European Journal of Information Systems and member of the Editor panel.

Marco De Marco - after having served 30 years at the Catholic University of Milan up to the top of the academic career - today is full professor of Organization and Information Systems at the Guglielmo Marconi University in Rome. Marco De Marco is the author of five books that discuss the development of information systems, the computer industry, and the impact of technology on organizations, as well as the writer of several articles and essays. He is also a member of the editorial board of a number of journals His major interests are systems development, e-government, programme evaluation, banking information systems, IT and Organizations. For his contribution to the discipline he received in 2010 the award of AIS Fellow.

Paolo Spagnoletti is assistant professor of Business Information Systems at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, Italy. He coordinates the Research Center on Information Systems of LUISS. He holds a Ph.D. from LUISS University, a Master degree in Business Engineering from Tor Vergata University and a M.Sc. degree in Engineering from La Sapienza University. He has been visiting fellow at the London School of Economics (UK), Georgia State University (USA) and INRIA-Loria (FR).

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