Business process flexibility through the exploration of stimuli

International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 36-46

  Narasipuram, Murali Mohan ^a   Regev, Gil ^b   Kumar, Kuldeep ^a,c,d   Wegmann, Alain ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BPF; Business Process Flexibility; Process management; Requisite variety

Indexed keywords

EID: 47549101443     PISSN: 17418763     EISSN: 17418771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPIM.2008.019346     Document Type: Article

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