Design logic and the ambiguity operator

Authors:
Richard Baskerville;Jan Pries-Heje
Affiliations:
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga;Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
Venue:
DESRIST'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Global Perspectives on Design Science Research
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Technological rules are one form of expressing management design activities like organizational design, decision design, and information systems design However, the notion of a “rule” can imply an unintended over-specification of premises and outcomes We propose a design logic using the concept of an ambiguity operator in the predicate logic format To test the validity of the ambiguity operator, we used it to express the theory under test in a field experiment The field experiment demonstrated that the ambiguity operator is both useful and valid in logically capturing the field reality when applying designs expressed in the form of technological rules.