Conceptualizing routing decisions in business processes: Theoretical analysis and empirical testing

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 345-393

  Soffer, Pnina ^a   Wand, Yair ^b   Kaner, Maya ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Ort Barude College   (Israel)

Author keywords

Business process modeling; Cognitive aspects of modeling; Routing structures

Indexed keywords

SUPPLY CHAINS;

BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; COGNITIVE ASPECTS; EMPIRICAL TESTING; OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES; PROCESS REPRESENTATION; ROUTING DECISIONS; ROUTING STRUCTURES; SOFTWARE FEATURES;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 84932649732     PISSN: 15369323     EISSN: 15583457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00396     Document Type: Article

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