Business Process Management Journal: Volume 24 Issue 2

Methodologies for process harmonization in the post-merger integration phase: A literature review

Irene Maria Schönreiter

Post-merger integration (PMI) has received much attention in recent years due to an increasing number of merger and acquisitions (M&As). Process harmonization plays an important…

Maximizing control flow concurrency in BPMN workflow models through syntactic means

Wai Yin Mok

Concurrency is a desirable property that enhances workflow efficiency. The purpose of this paper is to propose six polynomial-time algorithms that collectively maximize control…

Organizational culture and knowledge sharing: design of incentives and business processes

Zuopeng Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to present and study an analytical model of knowledge management (KM) in which employees’ fit with a firm’s organizational culture improves with their…

The promotion of BPM and lean in the health sector: main results

Gabriela Souza Assis Ferreira, Ulisses Rezende Silva, André Lucirton Costa, Silvia Inês Dallavalle de Dallavalle Pádua

Given the complexity and difficulties of the health sector, the question that this study attempts to answer is as follows: what are the main results of studies on business process…

Propositions on the interaction of organizational culture with other factors in the context of BPM adoption

Mojca Indihar Štemberger, Brina Buh, Ljubica Milanović Glavan, Jan Mendling

The paper investigates differences in the success of business process management (BPM) initiatives and their connection with organizational culture. The purpose of this paper is…

Process orientation and the impact on operational performance and customer-focused performance

Marcel van Assen

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of process orientation at the employee level on operational performance (OP) and customer-focused performance (CP), where the…

Knowledge management capability and supply chain management practices in the Saudi food industry

Ahmed Attia, Ingy Salama

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of knowledge management capabilities (KMCs) on supply chain management practices (SCMP) and organizational performance (OP) in…

What do we know about business process management training? Current status of related research and a way forward

Dharshani Thennakoon, Wasana Bandara, Erica French, Paul Mathiesen

There is wide acknowledgment that training people from all levels of an organization in process management activities and “process thinking” is a major contributor to the success…

Open innovation and intellectual property strategies: Empirical evidence from a bio-pharmaceutical case study

Antonio Toma, Giustina Secundo, Giuseppina Passiante

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the main Intellectual Property (IP) protection strategies adopted in the R&D phases of a company operating in the bio-pharmaceutical…

Measuring the environmental sustainability of supply chain for Indian steel industry: A graph theoretic approach

Shishir Goyal, Srikanta Routroy, Harshal Shah

The purpose of this paper is to quantify, evaluate and compare the environmental sustainability performance of supply chain for Indian steel industry using graph theoretic…

Correctness of aspect-oriented business process modeling

Xu Wang, Xuan Zhang, Tong Li, Junhui Liu, Qingyi Chen

Business process models, while primarily intended for process documentation, communication, and improvement, are often also used as input for developing process-oriented software…

Supply chain risk management research agenda: From a literature review to a call for future research directions

Ozlem Bak

Supply chain risk (SCR) has increasingly attracted academic and corporate interest; however, the SCR debate in academic literature is rather limited to case- and location-specific…

Supply chain innovation-driven business models: Exploratory analysis and implications for management

Nizar Abdelkafi, Margherita Pero

The purpose of this paper is to explore case studies of business models (BMs) driven by supply chain innovations (SCIs) in order to investigate how SCIs can lead companies to…