“…The EA Management approach of the University of St. Gallen (Österle & Winter, 2003;Winter & Fischer, 2006;Aier & Schönherr, 2007;Braun, 2007;Schelp & Stutz, 2007;Österle, Winter, Höning, Kurpjuweit, & Osl, 2007;Aier, Kurpjuweit et al, 2008;Aier, Riege, & Winter, 2008;Fischer, 2008;Hafner & Winter, 2008;Winter & Schelp, 2008a, 2008bAier, Kurpjuweit, Saat, & Winter, 2009;Kurpjuweit, 2009;Riege & Aier, 2009;Aier & Gleichauf, 2010;Hanschke, 2009) focuses on an holistic approach to design organizations, which is, therefore, closely related to enterprise modeling and the management of enterprise architectures. It can best be characterized by its core business meta-model that serves to model a commercial organization as part of a business engineering activity.…”