Enterprise Ontology Theory and Methodology /

• Main Author: Dietz, Jan L. G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Computers.; Application software.; Computer Science.; Models and Principles.; IT in Business.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing.

If one thing catches the eye in almost all literature about (re)designing or (re)engineering of enterprises, it is the lack of a well-founded theory about their construction and operation. Often even the most basic notions like "action" or "process" are not precisely defined. Nex...