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ASSRI 2013: Service Research and Innovation pp 15–28Cite as

Effective Governance During SOA Lifecycle - Theory and Practice

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This research provides a theoretical conceptualization of SOA governance aspects that can be used to assess SOA governance practices and provide guidance to improve them. The review of IT and SOA governance shows that there are conflicting claims and inconsistency in the literature concerning the role of SOA governance. Moreover, there is no empirical evidence on the implications of the governance frameworks used for SOA and how they are working in the most effective ways. As a result, there is confusion in practice as the issues of SOA governance have not been successfully addressed. Based on an extensive analysis of major governance frameworks, a comprehensive list of key SOA governance aspects is proposed. This research will focus on the assessment of the importance of SOA governance aspects by finding the role of the governance framework during the different activities of SOA lifecycle and outlining the discrepancies between theory and practice.

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  1. School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    George Joukhadar

  2. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Fethi Rabhi

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    Joseph G. Davis

  2. University of Washington, Tacoma, Washington, USA

    Haluk Demirkan

  3. IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California, USA

    Hamid R. Motahari-Nezhad

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Joukhadar, G., Rabhi, F. (2014). Effective Governance During SOA Lifecycle - Theory and Practice. In: Davis, J., Demirkan, H., Motahari-Nezhad, H. (eds) Service Research and Innovation. ASSRI 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 177. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07950-9_2

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