Software Develop Method Construction A Kernel Approach to Organizational Engineering

Dominated by the behavioral science approach for a long time, information systems research increasingly acknowledges design science as a complementary approach. The design of methods is addressed rarely. But methods appear to be of utmost importance particularly for organizational engineering. This paper justifies method construction as a kernel approach to organizational engineering. Based on a discussion of fundamental scientific positions in general and approaches to information systems research in particular, appropriate conceptualizations of `method´ and `method construction´ are presented. These conceptualizations are then discussed regarding their capability of supporting organizational engineering. Our analysis is located on a meta level: Method construction is conceptualized and integrated from a large number of references. Method instantiations or method engineering approaches however are only referenced and not described in detail.