Publication Date
10-1-2019
Abstract
This study concentrated on the relationship between the Enterprise Architecture (EA) maturity of an organization and the business value associated with it in the South African financial services environment. It was developed within the critical realism philosophy, which states that mechanisms generate events by accentuating the underlying EA mechanisms that lead to business value, as well as provide insights into the opportunities and challenges organizations experienced as they progressed to higher levels of maturity. Constructed using the resource-based view of the firm as the underlying theoretical framework, this research examined EA as an intangible resource and maturity as a source of heterogeneity. This research also examined the practices of business units at evolving levels of maturity and the forms of business value attainable at those levels. Further, this study demonstrated that EA is a source of both tangible and intangible forms of value.
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