ABSTRACT

This paper provides theoretical and practical implications for the application of agent-based models (ABMs) to address the issue of coevolutionary business-IS alignment. The implications stem from the following arguments: (a) the alignment issue can be modelled by an ABM to describe the features of complex adaptive systems (CAS); (b) the coevolutionary principles of business and IS alignment stipulate individual behaviours and guide organisational order; (c) ABM development and experimentation offer guidance to better explain how organisations control the alignment trajectory with coevolutionary principles. To extend the extant coevolutionary research on alignment, this paper develops an ABM for a hierarchical organisational structure and validates three coevolutionary principles.

摘要

本文为基于代理的模型 (ABM) 解决协同进化业务-IS 对齐问题的应用提供了理论和实践意义。其含义源于以下论点：(a) 对齐问题可以由 ABM 建模以描述复杂自适应系统 (CAS) 的特征；(b) 业务和信息系统对齐的共同进化原则规定了个人行为并指导了组织秩序；(c) ABM 开发和实验为更好地解释组织如何根据共同进化原则控制对齐轨迹提供指导。为了扩展现有的协同进化研究，本文为分层组织结构开发了 ABM，并验证了三个协同进化原则。