On theoretical foundations of empirical business process management research

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 99 LNBIP, Issue PART 1, 2012, Pages 320-332

  Houy, Constantin ^a   Fettke, Peter ^a   Loos, Peter ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

BPM; Business Process Management; Design Theory; Empirical Research; Theoretical Foundations; Theory; Theory Building

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INNOVATION;

BPM; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; DESIGN THEORY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS; THEORY; THEORY BUILDING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84856575096     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28108-2_32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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