dc.contributor.author | Goede, R | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-02-07T06:32:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-02-07T06:32:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Goede, R. 2012. The descriptive properties of prescriptive theories: an application of systems thinking in data warehousing. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 8(2):283-304, Dec. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605] | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1817-4434 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8130 | |
dc.description.abstract | Information systems and in particular data warehouses are very expensive systems to develop. It is
therefore not advisable to experiment with ideas too different from current practices. This
makes it difficult to apply prescriptive theories in an existing field. From theoretical
considerations one might want to develop a data warehouse according to another method such
as critical systems thinking methodology. It is however very difficult to persuade data
warehouse practitioners to attempt such an experiment. This might be because they would
rather adhere to known practices or that they are not sufficiently knowledgeable on critical
systems thinking (or any other prescriptive theory) to apply it to such an expensive project.
This paper describes a method in which prescriptive theories may be used descriptively to
analyse their applicability in a specific field of application. The proposed method is used to
understand the practices of the data warehouse discipline from the perspectives of the systems
thinking discipline. It is also indicated how this method could be used in other studies where
the behaviour of participants is viewed from a point of view of which the detail are unknown to
the participants. | en_US |
dc.description.uri | https://doi.org/10.4102/td.v8i2.233 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Data warehousing | en_US |
dc.subject | Systems thinking | en_US |
dc.subject | Prescriptive theory | en_US |
dc.subject | Descriptive theory | en_US |
dc.subject | Interpretative research | en_US |
dc.title | The descriptive properties of prescriptive theories: an application of systems thinking in data warehousing | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.contributor.researchID | 10085971 - Goede, Roelien | |