Long Live Design Science Research! .... and Remind Me Again About Whether It Is a New Research Paradigm or a Rationale of Last Resort for Worthwhile Research That Doesn\u27t Fit Under Any Other Umbrella

A remarkable and influential resurgence in the long tradition of design science research (DSR) in the information-systems discipline has occurred following MIS Quarterly\u27s 2004 publication of “Design Science Research in Information Systems” by Hevner et al. Having learned what we have learned from the debates about DSR, and recognizing that the information-systems discipline is quintessentially rooted in design, perhaps it is time to ask whether we actually need DSR to legitimize research that produces interesting and valuable results related to new constructs, models, methods, or instantiations