Within the scope of the lecture "Management Research" of the 1st semester of the M. Sc. IT Management berufintegrierend in the summer semester 2019 the students have to analyse one research paper according to the guidelines of Hevner et al. (2004). Hevner et al. describe the design science research as a paradigm in the field of information systems and defined seven guidelines (see chapter 3) which need to be considered in the design science approach.

The objective of this work is to investigate the chosen article on the compliance of these guidelines. First, the content of the article will be summarized and the theory of design science research explained. Based on this, the article will be checked according to the design science guidelines. Finally, the implementation of the article will be rated by the authors of this paper. The students have the free choice between an A to D ranked article at vhbonline.org of the department business informatics. The following analysis deals with the paper “Situation awareness for recommender systems” published in the year 2018.