How social distance of process designers affects the process of process modeling: Insights from a controlled experiment

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1364-1370

  Kolb, Jens ^a   Zimoch, Michael ^a   Weber, Barbara ^b   Reichert, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Business process modeling; Construal level theory

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; COGNITIVE ASPECTS; CONSTRUAL LEVELS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; EXTERNAL CONSULTANTS; PROCESS DESIGNERS; PROCESS MODELING; PROCESS-AWARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 84905641043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2554850.2554940     Document Type: Conference Paper

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