Current and Future Issues in BPM Research: A European Perspective from the ERCIS Meeting 2010
Journal
Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS)
ISSN
1529-3181
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2011-02-01
Author(s)
vom Brocke, Jan
;
Becker, Joerg
;
Braccini, Alessio Maria
;
Butleris, Rimantas
;
Hofreiter, Birgit
;
Kapočius, K?stutis
;
De Marco, Marco
;
Schmidt, Guenter
;
Seidel, Stefan
;
Simons, Alexander
;
Skopal, Tomáš
;
Stein, Armin
;
Stieglitz, Stefan
;
Suomi, Reima
;
Vossen, Gottfried
;
;
Wrycza, Stanislaw
Research Team
IWI1
Abstract
Business process management (BPM) is a still-emerging field in the academic discipline of Information Systems (IS). This article reflects on a workshop on current and future issues in BPM research that was conducted by seventeen IS researchers from eight European countries as part of the 2010 annual meeting of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS). The results of this workshop suggest that BPM research can meaningfully contribute to investigating a broad variety of phenomena that are of interest to IS scholars, ranging from rather technical (e.g., the implementation of software architectures) to managerial (e.g., the impact of organizational culture on process performance). It further becomes noticeable that BPM researchers can make use of several research strategies, including qualitative, quantitative, and design-oriented approaches. The article offers the participants' outlook on the future of BPM research and combines their opinions with research results from the academic literature on BPM, with the goal of contributing to establishing BPM as a distinct field of research in the IS discipline.
Language
English
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
ACM
Publisher place
New York, NY
Volume
28
Number
online
Start page
393
End page
414
Pages
22
Official URL
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
214459