much more valuable for analyzing real-world complexities (Wand et al. 1995;
Bettinger and Boston 2001; Farrow and Winograd 2001; Kaechele and Dabbert
2002, Gemino and Wand 2004). Omitting this approach in designing and developing the theory and concepts has been identified as a main reason for the lack of
success of models (Herrick et al. 2006; Gonzalez-Perez and Henderson-Sellers
2007; Nautiyal and Kaechele 2009). Therefore, it is necessary that the theory and
concepts are well defined at the very beginning of the project, and that they are
designed and developed for tangible execution of the results in a real-world
Data from empirical studies for real world
Model for analysis of real world complexity
Developing concept from theory and following the literature survey
Model for solving real-world system/ for handling the theoretical model
Model development for real world complexities
Technical approach
Modules with data base
Implementation
Analysis
Theoretical model
develpment
Conceptual model
development
Development of
implementation
information system model
Software solution
A
D
E
C
B
Fig. 2 Research design for conceptual model development needed for the real-world modeling
(Nautiyal et al. 2010)
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