Towards an understanding of the business value of business process standardization - A case study approach

14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 1412-1419

  von Stetten, Alexander ^a   Muenstermann, Bjoern ^a   Eckhardt, Andreas ^b   Laumer, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business process standardization; Business value; Case study; Human resources information systems

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS REDESIGN; BUSINESS VALUE; CASE STUDY APPROACH; OPERATING COMPANIES; PROCESS PERFORMANCE; RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES; RESOURCES INFORMATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 70349345676     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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