Owing to the necessity of effectively establishing enterprise architecture (EA) in an organizational context, there is a growing stream of research to examine the assimilation and institutionalization of EA in organizations. Our study aims to contribute to this stream by giving rise to the legitimacy of EA as the cornerstone of its institutionalization. To this end, we investigate four criteria of legitimacy, namely regulatory, pragmatic, normative, and cultural-cognitive legitimacy, in a case organization that lost legitimacy for its EA practices. We found criticality of regulatory and pragmatic legitimacy that need to be obtained effectively and promptly in order to grant sufficient time for normative and cultural-cognitive types of legitimacy to be attained.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SoM - Business Innovation
Publisher
Association for Information Systems
Event Title
Forty-Second International Conference on Information Systems