Opportunities and constraints: The current struggle with BPMN

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 181-201

  Recker, Jan ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Modelling; Process management; Research work; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 73149121321     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637151011018001     Document Type: Article

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