Towards a Reconstruction of Theoretical Foundations of Enterprise Architecture Management

Simon Weiss (), Stephan Aier () and Robert Winter ()
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Simon Weiss: University of St. Gallen
Stephan Aier: University of St. Gallen
Robert Winter: University of St. Gallen

A chapter in Information Systems: Crossroads for Organization, Management, Accounting and Engineering, 2012, pp 461-468 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Enterprise architecting has grown to a well-established discipline. Based on the design science research paradigm, a multitude of models and methods have been developed and real-world practices have been assessed. However, as the development of EAM has been rather practice-driven, a theoretical foundation for EAM seems to be lacking. Based on a set S1 of well-known EAM properties and EAM means-ends relationships, this paper addresses this gap by identifying an initial set S2 of information systems theories that can serve as theoretical grounding for EAM. As a first iteration of Hevner’s (Hevner AR (2007) A Three Cycle View of Design Science Research. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems 19 (2):87–92) Rigor Cycle, we identified 12 theories that can be related to EAM and have the potential to serve as a theoretical grounding for more profound EAM design theories.

Keywords: Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM); Design Science Research (DSR); Rigor Cycle; Means-ends Relationships; Organizational Information Processing Theory (OIPT) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2789-7_50

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