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The business domain has many facets and there is no single approach that can claim general validity in the whole domain. Instead a number of approaches that are rooted in different fields of research, e.g. agent systems, language action, socio-instrumental action etc., compete for an appropriate conceptualization We give an overview of them and provide some deeper insight into two of them, socio-instrumental pragmatism and enterprise ontology.
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Rittgen, P. (2010). Business Ontologies. In: Poli, R., Healy, M., Kameas, A. (eds) Theory and Applications of Ontology: Computer Applications. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8847-5_18
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