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Information Technology Architecture can be understood as a set of policies and technical choices that reflects integration and standardization requirements for assisting enterprise business strategies. The aim of this study is to analyze its management and to examine the influences on IT architecture decisions by viewing it through the lens of institutional theory and strategic choice theory using case study methodology in a large telecommunications company. Institutional influence can be the result of an external action or the output of something embedded within the formal organizational structure whereas strategic influence is related to voluntary behavior of managers. Results show that these two types of influences act together. The strategic ones are more mentioned during interviews whereas the institutional ones, particularly mimetic ones, appear in decisions related to innovation and uncertainty.