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The Adoption of DEMO: A Research Agenda

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Advances in Enterprise Engineering III (CIAO! 2009, EOMAS 2009)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 34))

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Organizations are confronted with increasingly complex and dynamic environments. Methodologies in the area of enterprise architecture claim to provide the necessary agility in order to prevail in these environments. The DEMO methodology is one of the few promising methodologies in this area. The need for this type of methodology is now quickly increasing. Research has, however, shown that adoption of methodologies by organizations is often problematic. As a result, notwithstanding their benefits, many methodologies do not diffuse as expected. Moreover, little research has in fact studied the adoption of methodologies. In this paper, we argue that research on the adoption of DEMO is therefore a useful topic that may identify ways to stimulate the acceptance of DEMO. We therefore provide a research agenda on the adoption of DEMO that is firmly grounded in the adoption of innovations literature.

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Ven, K., Verelst, J. (2009). The Adoption of DEMO: A Research Agenda. In: Albani, A., Barjis, J., Dietz, J.L.G. (eds) Advances in Enterprise Engineering III. CIAO! EOMAS 2009 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 34. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01915-9_12

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