Social Sustainability And Enterprise Architecture: Design Foundations In The Company Catering Sector
Paper Number
ECIS2026-1894
Paper Type
CRP
Abstract
Social sustainability indicators remain weakly integrated into enterprise architectures because relevant data are fragmented across human, operational and organizational systems. This study develops design foundations for a human-centered sustainability enterprise architecture (HS-EA) in workplace contexts. Drawing on design science research and a systematic literature review, the study derives requirements and synthesizes them into a conceptual architecture that combines human-centered sensing and semantic interoperability. Grounded in architectural thinking, the HS-EA explains how distributed actors and everyday practices, often overlooked in top-down enterprise architecture, can be linked to social sustainability indicators. A workplace-canteen instantiation and an exploratory field demonstration across three organizations provide initial feasibility for selected social functions, with exploratory results indicating reduced glucose variability and practical value for the company catering sector. The study contributes to architectural thinking by connecting local practices and heterogeneous data to enterprise-level sustainability management.
Recommended Citation
Röhl, Kevin Nils; Alt, Rainer; and Wirsam, Jan, "Social Sustainability And Enterprise Architecture: Design Foundations In The Company Catering Sector" (2026). ECIS 2026 Proceedings. 10.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2026/is_resil/isresilience/10
Social Sustainability And Enterprise Architecture: Design Foundations In The Company Catering Sector
Social sustainability indicators remain weakly integrated into enterprise architectures because relevant data are fragmented across human, operational and organizational systems. This study develops design foundations for a human-centered sustainability enterprise architecture (HS-EA) in workplace contexts. Drawing on design science research and a systematic literature review, the study derives requirements and synthesizes them into a conceptual architecture that combines human-centered sensing and semantic interoperability. Grounded in architectural thinking, the HS-EA explains how distributed actors and everyday practices, often overlooked in top-down enterprise architecture, can be linked to social sustainability indicators. A workplace-canteen instantiation and an exploratory field demonstration across three organizations provide initial feasibility for selected social functions, with exploratory results indicating reduced glucose variability and practical value for the company catering sector. The study contributes to architectural thinking by connecting local practices and heterogeneous data to enterprise-level sustainability management.