A framework for information systems architecture
IBM Systems Journal
Multi-perspective Enterprise Modeling (MEMO) - Conceptual Framework and Modeling Languages
HICSS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 3 - Volume 3
How to Survive in the Jungle of Enterprise Architecture Framework: Creating or Choosing an Enterprise Architecture Framework
Activity-based justification of IT investments
Information and Management
Evaluation of current architecture frameworks
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Enterprise ontology in enterprise engineering
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Towards a Systematic Method for Identifying Business Components
CBSE '08 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering
Handbook on Enterprise Architecture
Handbook on Enterprise Architecture
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Enterprise modeling has been an area of significant research in the information systems discipline throughout the last decade. Mainly developed by IT-practitioners, enterprise architectures (EA) became a promising and comprehensive approach to model either the current or desired state of enterprises. Existing approaches are, however, often criticized for paying too little attention to the business side of enterprises. In this paper, we interpret an enterprise as socio-technical system and analyze from a systems theory perspective which features are necessary for a comprehensive model. From there, we deduce if, why and how additional aspects of enterprises should be included into EA. Amongst others, it becomes obvious that especially human actors, as most flexible and agile elements of enterprises, are not adequately included in current architectures. We therefore present first ideas for integrating this important aspect into EA, the corresponding implications of such an inclusion, as well as several areas of further research.