An Institutional Framework for Analyzing Organizational Responses to the Establishment of Architectural Transformation
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2012-06-11
Author(s)
Research Team
IWI1
Abstract
The need for constant transformation of enterprises is omnipresent. A discipline that has been proposed to support the coordination of enterprise transformation is Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) which has grown to a mature discipline in academia and practice. However, it can be observed in practice that it still is a challenge to introduce such an architectural coordination approach for supporting enterprise transformation. This may be due to the reason that the institutional context of EAM is only little understood, that is, the interplay between the pressures EAM exerts on the organisation and the response strategies of this organisation. The paper reviews existing work on institutional theory and confirms by means of a case study that the institutional factors of cause, constituents, content, control, and context are not only relevant for EAM but may be consistently linked to response strategies of acquiesce, compromise, avoid, defy, and manipulate. Moreover the case study implies to add additional institutional factors for EAM, namely trust and participation.
Language
English
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2012)
Publisher
Association for Information Systems
Publisher place
AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
Start page
228
Event Title
20th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2012
Event Location
Barcelona, Spain
Event Date
11.-13.06.2012
Official URL
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
214621
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