@TECHREPORT{R-96-17, NUMBER = {R-96-17}, INSTITUTION = ida, ADDRESS = idaaddr, YEAR = {1996}, AUTHOR = {Goldkuhl, G{\"o}ran}, TITLE = {Generic Business Frameworks and Action Modelling}, ABSTRACTURL = {/publications/cgi-bin/tr-fetch.pl?r-96-17+abstr}, ABSTRACT = {The communicative action perspective of business processes and information systems has attracted much attention recently. A viable approach in this area is: Action Workflow. This paper investigates the use of Action Workflow as a generic business framework, relating it to the alternative Business as Action game Theory. The latter provides a more exhaustive description of various business actions. Action Workflow is also related to the SIMM approach with Action Diagrams, an action modelling method. A communicative action expansion of this method is suggested in this paper. A discussion is performed concerning the relations between generic business frameworks and action modelling methods. }