Surveys in business process management – a literature review

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 692-718

  Roeser, Tobias ^a   Kern, Eva Maria ^a  

^a BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business process management; Business process orientation; Literature review; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930176652     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BPMJ-07-2014-0065     Document Type: Article

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