Facing Service-Oriented System Engineering challenges: An organizational perspective

Over the past decade, Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE) has emerged as one of the most important research areas to help industry achieve many goals such as agility, flexibility, reusability and efficiency. However, SOSE is still suffering from numerous and a broad scope of challenges. Although challenges usually imply research opportunities in academia, too many challenges will inevitably constrain the applicability of corresponding research topic to industry, and in turn spoil the vitality and development of the relevant research area. Therefore, it is necessary to find efficient approaches to facilitate decreasing current challenges and relieving the research effort in the area of SOSE. Through treating SOA system as an instance of organization, this paper justifies that we can introduce existing work in organization theory area to current challenges of SOSE. As a demonstration, four preliminary solutions that have been successfully applied to organizational area are identified to meet four challenges scattered under four research topics of SOSE.