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EEWC 2019: Advances in Enterprise Engineering XIII pp 102–114Cite as

Enterprise Architecture as a Public Goods Dilemma

An Experimental Approach

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Enterprise architecture management (EAM) in organizations often requires coping with conflicts between long-term enterprise-wide goals and short-term goals of local decision-makers. We argue that these goal conflicts are similar to the goal conflicts that occur in public goods dilemmas: people are faced with a choice between an option (a) with a high collective benefit for a group of people and a low individual benefit, and another option (b) with a low collective benefit and a high individual benefit. Building on institutional theory, we hypothesize how different combinations of institutional pressures (coercive, normative, and mimetic) affect decision makers’ behavior in such conflictive situations. We conduct a set of experiments for testing our hypotheses on cooperative behavior in a delayed-reward public goods dilemma. As preliminary results, we find that normative and mimetic pressures enhance cooperative behavior. Coercive pressure, however, may have detrimental effects in settings that normative and mimetic pressures are disregarded. In future work, we plan to transfer the abstract experimental design of an online-lab experiment into a field experiment setting and thus into the real-world context of EAM.

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    Jannis Beese, Kazem Haki, Stephan Aier & Robert Winter

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Beese, J., Haki, K., Aier, S., Winter, R. (2020). Enterprise Architecture as a Public Goods Dilemma. In: Aveiro, D., Guizzardi, G., Borbinha, J. (eds) Advances in Enterprise Engineering XIII. EEWC 2019. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 374. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37933-9_7

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