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An OD-Pearl for the EE-Oyster

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Advances in Enterprise Engineering XI (EEWC 2017)

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Explaining the basics of Lowlands-SocioTechnical Systems Design (L-STSD) to the Enterprise Engineering community is the first goal of this contribution in order to show how it fits with EE. Then, a first attempt is made to link L-STSD to basic EE insights gained so far. It seems that the commonalities are good, because of a shared basis in general systems theory, and a desire to optimize organizational functioning. The differences may not be problematic, so L-STSD may be a compliant view to enhance the EE-body of knowledge with a new lens on organisational structure, or the labour to be divided and coordinated & controlled.

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The authors thanks H.A. Proper for his invitation to be part of the special session on Organisational Design at EEWC2017.

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  1. Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    L. J. Lekkerkerk

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  1. University of Madeira and Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Funchal, Portugal

    David Aveiro

  2. Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Robert Pergl

  3. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Giancarlo Guizzardi

  4. Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil

    João Paulo Almeida

  5. Kuwait Maastricht Business School, Kuwait, Kuwait

    Rodrigo Magalhães

  6. Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Hans Lekkerkerk

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Lekkerkerk, L.J. (2017). An OD-Pearl for the EE-Oyster. In: Aveiro, D., Pergl, R., Guizzardi, G., Almeida, J., Magalhães, R., Lekkerkerk, H. (eds) Advances in Enterprise Engineering XI. EEWC 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 284. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57955-9_15

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