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Table 3

Theoretical constructions for the stage Building, Intervention and Evaluation

Theoretical construction		Evaluation of theoretical construction
Task in the ADR method	Integrated method support in the ADR project	Empirical evidence
Discover initial knowledge-creation target	DSR contribution types (Gregor and Hevner, 2013)	Helped the ADR project to identify and decide about different levels of design knowledge that the ADR project should contribute to. These levels are: (1) a situated implementation of an artefact, (2) a nascent design theory, and (3) a well-developed design theory
Execute building-intervention-evaluation (BIE) cycle(s)	The context framework (Rosemann et al., 2008)	The onion model and procedural support included in the context framework enabled the ADR project to identify organisation specific factors and characteristics improving the design and evaluation of the digital tool
Assess need for additional cycles, repeat	Framework for Evaluation of Design Science Research (Venable et al., 2016)	The ADR project experiences a support for: (1) systematic evaluation approach involving planning of specific evaluation cycles, which included several evaluation episodes (2) encouraged the formulation of generic and specific evaluation properties, which were essential for the understanding of when the artefact had fulfilled the goals
Assess need for additional cycles, repeat	Grounded Theory (Strauss and Corbin, 1998)	Supported the ADR project to categorise the feedback collected from evaluating the digital tool during the interventions made in practice. The generated categories were useful when assessing the need for additional ADR cycles

Theoretical construction		Evaluation of theoretical construction
Task in the ADR method	Integrated method support in the ADR project	Empirical evidence
Discover initial knowledge-creation target	DSR contribution types (Gregor and Hevner, 2013)	Helped the ADR project to identify and decide about different levels of design knowledge that the ADR project should contribute to. These levels are: (1) a situated implementation of an artefact, (2) a nascent design theory, and (3) a well-developed design theory
Execute building-intervention-evaluation (BIE) cycle(s)	The context framework (Rosemann et al., 2008)	The onion model and procedural support included in the context framework enabled the ADR project to identify organisation specific factors and characteristics improving the design and evaluation of the digital tool
Assess need for additional cycles, repeat	Framework for Evaluation of Design Science Research (Venable et al., 2016)	The ADR project experiences a support for: (1) systematic evaluation approach involving planning of specific evaluation cycles, which included several evaluation episodes(2) encouraged the formulation of generic and specific evaluation properties, which were essential for the understanding of when the artefact had fulfilled the goals
Assess need for additional cycles, repeat	Grounded Theory (Strauss and Corbin, 1998)	Supported the ADR project to categorise the feedback collected from evaluating the digital tool during the interventions made in practice. The generated categories were useful when assessing the need for additional ADR cycles