"To standardize or not to standardize?" - Understanding the effect of business process complexity on business process standardization

19th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Schäfermeyer, Markus ^a   Rosenkranz, Christoph ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business process complexity; Business process management; Business process standardization; Items; Pre test; Standardization effort

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; DEGREE OF COMPLEXITY; ITEMS; MEASUREMENT SCALE; PRE-TEST; PROCESS COMPLEXITY; RESEARCH MODELS;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 84870637507     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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