TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose Patterns have proven to be useful for documenting general reusable solutions to a commonly occurring problem. In recent years, several different business process management (BPM)-related patterns have been published. Despite the large number of publications on this subject, there is no work that provides a comprehensive overview and categorization of the published business process model patterns. The purpose of this paper is to close this gap by providing a taxonomy of patterns as well as a classification of 89 research works.Design/methodology/approach The authors analyzed 280 research articles following a structured iterative procedure inspired by the method for taxonomy development from Nickerson et al. (2013). Using deductive and inductive reasoning processes embedded in concurrent as well as joint research activities, the authors created a taxonomy of patterns as well as a classification of 89 research works.Findings In general, the findings extend the current understanding of BPM patterns. The authors identify pattern categories that are highly populated with research works as well as categories that have received far less attention such as risk and security, the ecological perspective and process architecture. Further, the analysis shows that there is not yet an overarching pattern language for business process model patterns. The insights can be used as starting point for developing such a pattern language.Originality/value Up to now, no comprehensive pattern taxonomy and research classification exists. The taxonomy and classification are useful for searching pattern works which is also supported by an accompanying website complementing the work. In regard to future research and publications on patterns, the authors derive recommendations regarding the content and structure of pattern publications.
VL  - 25
IS  - 5
SN  - 1463-7154
DO  - 10.1108/BPMJ-01-2018-0021
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/BPMJ-01-2018-0021
AU  - Fellmann Michael
AU  - Koschmider Agnes
AU  - Laue Ralf
AU  - Schoknecht Andreas
AU  - Vetter Arthur
PY  - 2018
Y1  - 2018/01/01
TI  - Business process model patterns: state-of-the-art, research classification and taxonomy
T2  - Business Process Management Journal
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 972
EP  - 994
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -