The state of the art of business process management research as published in the BPM conference: Recommendations for progressing the field

Business and Information Systems Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 55-72

  Recker, Jan ^a   Mendling, Jan ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Business process management; Citation analysis; Literature review; Maturity; Recommendations; Research methodology; Research progress

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007018420     PISSN: 23637005     EISSN: 18670202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12599-015-0411-3     Document Type: Article

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