How good is BPMN really? Insights from theory and practice

Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

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

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bpmn; Bww model; Ontology; Process modelling; Representational analysis

Indexed keywords

BPMN; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; BUSINESS RULES; BWW MODEL; CRITICAL ISSUES; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; IN-PROCESS; INDUSTRY STANDARDS; PROCESS MANAGEMENT; PROCESS MODELLING; REPRESENTATION MODEL; REPRESENTATIONAL ANALYSIS; THEORY AND PRACTICE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84870633899     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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