Business process modeling- A comparative analysis

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 333-363

  Recker, Jan ^a   Rosemann, Michael ^a   Indulska, Marta ^b   Green, Peter ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business process management; BWW model; Process modeling; Representation theory

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; PROCESS DESIGN; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; BWW MODEL; COMPARATIVE ANALYZES; EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCIES; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; PROCESS MANAGEMENT; PROCESS-MODELS; REPRESENTATION THEORY;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 70749098021     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00193     Document Type: Article

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