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)
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Weiss, S., Aier, S., Winter, R. (2012). Towards a Reconstruction of Theoretical Foundations of Enterprise Architecture Management. In: De Marco, M., Te'eni, D., Albano, V., Za, S. (eds) Information Systems: Crossroads for Organization, Management, Accounting and Engineering. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2789-7_50
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