How do we progress? An exploration of alternate explanations for BPM capability development

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 36, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-22

  Poeppelbuss, Jens ^a   Plattfaut, Ralf ^b   Niehaves, Bjoern ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business Process Management; Capability Development; Organizational Change; Process Theory

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

BASIC THEORY; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT; CASE-STUDIES; EXPLANATORY POWER; MATURITY MODEL; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; PROCESS THEORY;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84921718128     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.03601     Document Type: Article

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