DSS Foundations Project

Principal Researchers

  • Professor David Arnott, Monash University
  • Professor Graham Pervan, Curtin University of Technology

Research Assistant

  • Gemma Dodson

The aim of this project is to critically investigate the intellectual foundations of the DSS field. The research method involves the content analysis of DSS research papers. The first phase of the project has illuminated both problems and opportunities for DSS research. In addition to the general state of DSS research we have also investigated DSS research funding and the sub-fields of group support systems and data warehousing/business intelligence.

Publications

JOURNAL PAPERS

  1. Arnott, D., & Pervan, G. (2005). A critical analysis of decision support systems research. Journal of Information Technology, 20 (2), 67-87.
    (Honorable Mention in AIS SIGDSS Best DSS Journal Paper Award, 2005.)
  2. Arnott, D., Pervan, G., & Dodson, G. (2005). A descriptive analysis of decision support systems research from 1990 to 2003. Australian Journal of Information Systems, 12 (2), 178-191.
    (Second Prize in ACIS 2004 Best Paper Award.)
  3. Arnott, D., Pervan, G., & Dodson, G. (2005). Who pays for decision support systems research? Review, directions and issues. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 16, 356-380.

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

  1. Arnott, D., & Pervan, G. (2006). Eight key issues for the decision support systems discipline. In Proceedings of CIDMDS2006 (IFIP WG 8.3 Working Conference), IFIP/London School of Economics.
  2. Arnott, D., & Pervan, G. (2006). The methodological and theoretical foundations of decision support systems research. In D. Hart & S. Gregor (Eds.) Proceedings of Information Systems Foundations: Theory, Representation and Reality. Canberra, Australia: Australian National University.
  3. Arnott, D., Pervan, G., & Dodson, G. (2004). Decision support systems research 1990 to 2003: A descriptive analysis. In Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems. Hobart, Australia: University of Tasmania.
  4. Arnott, D., Pervan, G., OĠDonnell, P., & Dodson, G. (2004). An analysis of decision support systems research: Preliminary results. In R. Meredith, G. Shanks, D. Arnott & S. Carlsson (Eds.). Proceedings of the 2004 IFIP International Conference on Decision Support Systems (pp. 25-37). Prato, Italy: IFIP.
  5. Dodson, G., Arnott, D., & Pervan, G. (2006). The client and user in decision support systems: Review and research agenda. In Proceedings of CIDMDS2006 (IFIP WG 8.3 Working Conference), IFIP/London School of Economics.
  6. Pervan, G., & Arnott, D. (2006). Research in data warehousing and business intelligence: 1990-2004. In Proceedings of CIDMDS2006 (IFIP WG 8.3 Working Conference), IFIP/London School of Economics.
  7. Pervan, G., & Arnott, D. (2006). Key issues for GSS research. In Proceedings of Group Decision and Negotiation 2006.
  8. Pervan, G., Arnott, D., & Dodson, G. (2005). Trends in the study of group support systems. In Proceedings of Group Decision and Negotiation 2005. Vienna, Austria: INFORMS/University of Vienna.

 

The DSS Article Sample

The sample for the DSS Foundations Project is 1,167 DSS papers published in 14 journals from 1990 to 2005. The journals are:

  • Information & Organization (I&O) (previously Accounting, Management & Information Technologies)
  • Decision Sciences (DS)
  • Decision Support Systems (DSS)
  • European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS)
  • Information & Management (I&M)
  • Information Systems Journal (ISJ)
  • Information Systems Research (ISR)
  • Journal of Information Technology (JIT)
  • Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS)
  • Journal of Organizational Computing & Electronic Commerce (JOC&EC)
  • Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS)
  • Group Decision & Negotiation (GD&N)
  • Management Science (MS)
  • MIS Quarterly (MISQ).

The sampling logic, data collection protocol and analysis approach are detailed in:

Arnott, D., & Pervan, G. (2005). A critical analysis of decision support systems research. Journal of Information Technology, 20 (2), 67-87.

The 1,167 papers in the sample are available in an EndNote database. The database can be downloaded freely from the link below. If you know of any papers that are missing from the sample please contact Gemma Dodson.

Download the DSS Foundations Article Sample (EndNote format).