An empirical evaluation of the impact of process standardization on process performance and flexibility

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 6865-6877

  Muenstermann, Bjoern ^a   Joachim, Nils ^a   Beimborn, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business process flexibility; Business process performance; Business process standardization; PLS

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; PLS; PROCESS PERFORMANCE; RESEARCH MODELS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 79551541140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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