Identifying design principles for business incubation in the European space sector

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Mixing Oil with Water: Framing and Theorizing in Management Research Informed by Design Science

“…To connect design and science, and in particular framing and theorizing activity, many DS-based studies develop knowledge that combines descriptive-explanatory and prescriptive-normative elements [5,61,67,68,73]. In particular, so-called design propositions or principles appear to be instrumental in connecting the body of scientific evidence to prospective design: as the "real helps" of managerial thought and action [33] (p. 130), they link the descriptive and explanatory nature of (most) scholarly efforts to the normative and situated nature of work by practitioners [51,[59][60][61]67].…”

“…For the entrepreneurship field, Van Burg and Romme [65] developed a similar context-mechanism-outcome (CMO) format, arguing that contextual conditions and social mechanisms together inform a (typically rather broad) domain of actions within which entrepreneurs and their stakeholders can operate in order to accomplish their intended outcomes. These knowledge formats have been widely applied [8,9,46,48,49,60,64,67].…”

“…A final example is the study by Sagath et al [60], who developed a set of design principles for new business incubation in the space sector by synthesizing previous studies and combining these with practitioners" experiences documented in three incubators in the European space sector. All these examples demonstrate that a design principle tends to be part of a bundle of (complementary) principles.…”

“…Creating in DS involves the act of conceiving and realizing a new(ly perceived) artifact such as a strategy practice [54], entrepreneurial practice [60,66], intervention strategy [48,55] or managerial tool [10,57,61,68]. Framing and creating activity often go together, with many iterations back and forth.…”

“…Figure 1 also serves to demonstrate the potential role of CAMO-formatted knowledge in connecting the four DS activities. CAMO propositions, also known as design rules, are especially instrumental in connecting the framing and theorizing acts but can also help connect the (emerging) body of knowledge that arises from framing and theorizing to creating and validating solutions (or other artifacts) (e.g., [12,59,60,64,67]). Notably, the framework in Figure 1 does not explicitly refer to "what" is framed, created, theorized and validated.…”