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e-Business systems integration: a systems perspective

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Systems science has emerged as a meta-discipline and a meta-language, correspondingly, which can be applied to discuss issues in e-business systems and relevant enterprise architecture and enterprise integration. A lot of researches on enterprise architecture and enterprise integration in e-business systems have their theoretical findings and effective practices naturally influenced by systems theory and relative methodologies. This paper strives to review the contribution of systems theory to enterprise architecture and integration. It also tries to summarize methods or tools applied on enterprise systems level, and to investigate many crucial scopes, concepts and their interrelationship in e-business systems integration activities. Finally, this paper presents new prospects in enterprise architecture and integration for e-business systems. All of these may be useful to deal with the increase complex informatics issues of modern enterprises.

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This project was partially supported by the NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China) Grant 71132008, 70890080, 70890081 and 70971107, Changjiang Scholar Program of the Ministry of Education of China, and the US National Science Foundation Grant 1044845.

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  1. School of Economics and Management, Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai Campus), Weihai, 264209, Shandong, China

    Song Wang

  2. Department of Information Technology and Decision Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, 23529, USA

    Ling Li

  3. School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China

    Kanliang Wang

  4. Computer Science Department, School of Engineering and Computational Sciences, Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA, 24502, USA

    James D. Jones

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Wang, S., Li, L., Wang, K. et al. e-Business systems integration: a systems perspective. Inf Technol Manag 13, 233–249 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10799-012-0119-8

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