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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Nature of the Enterprise Engineering Discipline
Authors : Marne de Vries, Aurona Gerber, Alta van der Merwe
Published in: Advances in Enterprise Engineering VIII
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Enterprise engineering originated as a practice with most publications focusing on the practical facets without the underlying scientific foundation. Foundational works emerged from different authors in recent years, including Dietz, Hoogervorst and Giachetti. According to Gregor, the bodies of knowledge or theories encompassed in a discipline need to address
questions related to four classes
namely: the domain, structural or ontological, epistemological, and socio-political. As a departure point for setting a research agenda for EE, we argue that the
four classes of questions
could also serve as a basis to determine an EE research agenda. In this paper we argue that a research agenda for EE should start with the
first class of questions
, concerning the domain of the discipline and suggest that an existing model, the Enterprise Evolution Contextualisation Model (EECM), could be used to define the domain of the EE discipline.