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Complexity inherent to the management of organizational action recommends the use of instruments that support the structured description and analysis of organizations. A variety of enterprise modeling (EM) methods have been developed to serve these purposes. To contribute to the elucidation of their conceptual differences, overlaps, and focal points, this paper analyzes four selected EM methods based on a designed analysis framework. It includes an assessment of the methods’ key goals and purposes, central assumptions, and concepts. The paper concludes with a suggestion of future research topics.
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Bock, A., Kaczmarek, M., Overbeek, S., Heß, M. (2014). A Comparative Analysis of Selected Enterprise Modeling Approaches. In: Frank, U., Loucopoulos, P., Pastor, Ó., Petrounias, I. (eds) The Practice of Enterprise Modeling. PoEM 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 197. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45501-2_11
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