Using virtual worlds for collaborative business process modeling

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 546-564

  Brown, Ross ^a   Recker, Jan ^a   West, Stephen ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communication; Modeling; Process management; Virtual work

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959228996     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637151111136414     Document Type: Article

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