state interpretation

there are two possible interpretations of a transaction kind in the construction model of an organisation: the process interpretation and the state interpretation. In the…

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state

at any point in time, a world is in some state, defined as the set of facts that have been created up to (and including)…

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social devotion

one of the three generic goals of enterprise engineering. Enterprises should be designed in such a way that its employees get all the opportunities and…

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social correspondence

the degree of mutual understanding of a coordination act at the performa level of communication. Social correspondence is reached if the addressee thinks he/she has…

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service

the functional appearance of a product to its consumers.

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sentence

the syntactic form in which thoughts, especially facts, are expressed.

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self-activating actor (role)

 an actor (role) is called self-activating if it is initiator (role) and executor (role) of the same transaction (kind).

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scope of Interest

the delineation of the (part of the) organisation that one has chosen to focus on.

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revocation pattern

a pattern of process steps in which one of the steps in the basic transaction pattern is revoked.

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result phase

the transaction phase in which the initiator and the executor strive to reach consensus about the product that the executor has brought about. It starts…

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