TY - GEN
T1 - Design science and actor network theory nexus
T2 - 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2011
AU - Ngosi, Theodora
AU - Helfert, Markus
AU - Carcary, Marian
AU - Whelan, Eoin
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Actor network theory
KW - Design science
KW - Enterprise architecture management
KW - Information technology capability maturity framework
KW - Translation model
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M3 - Conference Publication
AN - SCOPUS:84865143772
SN - 9789898425560
T3 - ICEIS 2011 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
SP - 449
EP - 456
BT - ICEIS 2011 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
Y2 - 8 June 2011 through 11 June 2011
ER -