Which capabilities matter for successful business process change?

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 47-67

  Jurisch, Marlen Christin ^a   Palka, Wolfgang ^a   Wolf, Petra ^a   Krcmar, Helmut ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business process change; Capabilities; Case survey methodology; PLS; Process management; Research methods; Resource based theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892424624     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BPMJ-11-2012-0125     Document Type: Article

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