The Enterprise Interoperability Center - An Institutional Framework Facilitating Enterprise Interoperability

Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2007-06-07
Author(s)
Frenzel, Petra
;
Schroth, Christoph
;
Samsonova, Tatjana
Editor(s)
Abstract
During the last years, electronic collaboration between enterprises has significantly increased. To seamlessly integrate applications across company boundaries, all stakeholders have to adhere to common standards. Currently, cross-organizational business relationships are setup based on a plethora of standards that involve different technical representations, semantics, process specifications and also vary with respect to scope and granularity. The resulting business standards dilemma prevents corporations from seamlessly cooperating with each other. State-of-the-art standards tackle parts of this interoperability issue by providing flexible and semantically more precise specifications, but have not yet been widely adopted. The abundance of different standards, but also the frequently divergent interests of stakeholders involved in the development and adoption of standards prevents enterprises from seamlessly interconnecting their applications. In this work, we leverage institutional economics to elaborate on a novel approach to facilitating enterprise interoperability. Not the creation of yet another standard, but the establishment and fostering of a proper institutional framework will significantly reduce the stakeholders' uncertainty in deciding for and adopting a standard and thus drive seamless cross-organizational interoperability. A key outcome of the ATHENA-project, the Enterprise Interoperability Center (EIC) is expected to provide such an institutional framework. This work is devoted to analyzing this center on the basis of institutional economics in order to derive essential recommendations for it to emerge as the prevailing reference point for e-Business standards and to thus accelerate the seamless and efficient electronic collaboration between enterprises.

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Funding(s)
Language
English
Keywords
Enterprise Interoperability
Innovation Diffusion
Cross-organizational Business Collaboration
Enterprise Interoperability Center
EIC
Institutional Economics
Institutions
Institutional Change
e-Business Standards
Development and Adoption of Standards
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Relevant rigour - rigorous relevance : 15th European Conference on Information Systems ; ECIS 2007
Publisher
Association for Information Systems
Publisher place
AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
Start page
12
Event Title
15th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2007
Event Location
St. Gallen, Switzerland
Event Date
07-09.06.2007
Official URL
URL
Subject(s)

information managemen...

Eprints ID
35983
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