De Vries, MGerber, AVan der Merwe, A2014-10-282014-10-282014-05De Vries, M, Gerber, A and Van der Merwe, A. 2014. The nature of the enterprise engineering discipline. In: Proceedings of the 4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference, EEWC 2014, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, 5-8 May 2014978-3-319-06504-5http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-06505-2_1#page-1http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7750Proceedings of the 4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference, EEWC 2014, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, 5-8 May 2014. Published in Springer. Abstract onlyEnterprise 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.enEnterprise engineeringEnterprise engineering disciplineEngineering research agendaEnterprise engineering theoriesConference PresentationDe Vries, M., Gerber, A., & Van der Merwe, A. (2014). The nature of the enterprise engineering discipline. Springer. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7750De Vries, M, A Gerber, and A Van der Merwe. "The nature of the enterprise engineering discipline." (2014): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7750De Vries M, Gerber A, Van der Merwe A, The nature of the enterprise engineering discipline; Springer; 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7750 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - De Vries, M AU - Gerber, A AU - Van der Merwe, A AB - 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. DA - 2014-05 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Enterprise engineering KW - Enterprise engineering discipline KW - Engineering research agenda KW - Enterprise engineering theories LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2014 SM - 978-3-319-06504-5 T1 - The nature of the enterprise engineering discipline TI - The nature of the enterprise engineering discipline UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7750 ER -