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    A descriptive analysis of decision support systems research between 1990 and 2003

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    Authors
    Pervan, Graham
    Arnott, David
    Dodson, G.
    Date
    2005
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Pervan, Graham and Arnott, David and Dodson, Gemma. 2005. A descriptive analysis of decision support systems research between 1990 and 2003. Australasian Journal of Information Systems. 12: pp. 178-191.
    Source Title
    Australasian Journal of Information Systems
    Faculty
    Curtin Business School
    School of Information Systems
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    Pervan, Graham and Arnott, David and Dodson, Gemma (2005) A descriptive analysis of decision support systems research between 1990 and 2003, Australasian Journal of Information Systems 12:178-191.

    Reproduced by permission of Australian Computer Society.

    Copyright Australian Computer Society Inc.

    This article is published under the Open Access publishing model and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Please refer to the licence to obtain terms for any further reuse or distribution of this work.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31051
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    Abstract

    This paper is the first major report of a project that is investigating the theoretic foundations of decision support systems (DSS). The project was principally motivated by a concern for the direction and relevance of DSS research. The main areas of research focus are the decision and judgement theoretic base of the discipline, the research strategies used in published articles, and the professional relevance of DSS research. The project has analysed 926 DSS articles published in 14 major journals from 1990 to 2003. The findings indicate that DSS research is more dominated by positivist research than general information systems (in particular experiments, surveys, and descriptions of specific applications and systems), is heavily influenced by the work of Herbert Simon, is poorly grounded in contemporary judgement and decision-making research, and falls down in the identification of the nature of clients and users. Of great concern is the finding that DSS research has relatively low professional relevance. An overview of the direction of further analysis is presented.

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