Towards a Human Capabilities Conscious Enterprise Architecture
This conceptual paper argues that enterprise architecture (EA) should move towards a conscious human-centered conception of the enterprise. Employing the conceptual methodological approach of theory synthesis and drawing on the extant literature in enterprise architecture as well as pertinent social...
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| description | This conceptual paper argues that enterprise architecture (EA) should move towards a conscious human-centered conception of the enterprise. Employing the conceptual methodological approach of theory synthesis and drawing on the extant literature in enterprise architecture as well as pertinent social and organizational theories, we suggested foundational propositions that could holistically serve as a theoretical lens for (re)viewing the foundations of EA within a progressive conscious enterprise agenda. The novel contribution of the paper is the introduction of human capabilities approach (HCA) as a method theory, to supplement systems and stakeholder theories, for design and evaluation of enterprise architecture in the modern enterprise. The paper concludes by showing the implications of the propositions for practitioners and researchers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-402f56b693764771a479d7eafbd45dd52023-11-22T08:06:10ZengMDPI AGInformation2078-24892021-08-0112832710.3390/info12080327Towards a Human Capabilities Conscious Enterprise ArchitectureErmias Abebe Kassa0Jan C. Mentz1Department of Information Systems, School of Computing, University of South Africa, Johannesburg 2092, South AfricaDepartment of Information Systems, School of Computing, University of South Africa, Johannesburg 2092, South AfricaThis conceptual paper argues that enterprise architecture (EA) should move towards a conscious human-centered conception of the enterprise. Employing the conceptual methodological approach of theory synthesis and drawing on the extant literature in enterprise architecture as well as pertinent social and organizational theories, we suggested foundational propositions that could holistically serve as a theoretical lens for (re)viewing the foundations of EA within a progressive conscious enterprise agenda. The novel contribution of the paper is the introduction of human capabilities approach (HCA) as a method theory, to supplement systems and stakeholder theories, for design and evaluation of enterprise architecture in the modern enterprise. The paper concludes by showing the implications of the propositions for practitioners and researchers.https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/12/8/327enterprise architecturehuman capability approachsocio-technical architecturestakeholder theorysustainability |
| spellingShingle | Ermias Abebe Kassa Jan C. Mentz Towards a Human Capabilities Conscious Enterprise Architecture Information enterprise architecture human capability approach socio-technical architecture stakeholder theory sustainability |
| title | Towards a Human Capabilities Conscious Enterprise Architecture |
| title_full | Towards a Human Capabilities Conscious Enterprise Architecture |
| title_fullStr | Towards a Human Capabilities Conscious Enterprise Architecture |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards a Human Capabilities Conscious Enterprise Architecture |
| title_short | Towards a Human Capabilities Conscious Enterprise Architecture |
| title_sort | towards a human capabilities conscious enterprise architecture |
| topic | enterprise architecture human capability approach socio-technical architecture stakeholder theory sustainability |
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