DESIGN SCIENCE AND ACTOR NETWORK THEORY NEXUS A Perspective of Content Development of a Critical Process for Enterprise Architecture Management

摘要：

Design science in the Information Systems (IS) field is situated at the intersection of behavioural sciences, engineering and social sciences. However, little critical attention is paid to the behavioural aspects in a design process. Specifically, the role of the actors, group dynamics, consensus building and how results are achieved. This paper describes a design-oriented case study on the content development of the Enterprise Architecture Management, one of 32 critical processes (CP) of the Information Technology Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF). The case study methodology is an ethnographic exploratory approach tracing the content development of this CP from conception to maturity. We apply the combined principles of design science and Actor Network Theory (ANT). We develop a Translation Model that gives an integrative basis for using these combined principles in order to interpret the content development of this CP. The paper concludes with the validation of the Translation Model model to highlight its dominating qualities.

关键词： Design science Actor network theory Information technology capability maturity framework Enterprise

作者: Theodora Ngosi Markus Helfert Marian Carcary Eoin Whelan

作者单位: Innovation Value Institute, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland School of Computing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland Department of Management and Marketing, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ire

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information System(第13届企业信息系统国际会议 ICEIS 2011)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 1036-1043

在线出版日期: 2011-06-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）