[AISWorld] EJIS Special Issue on Business Process Management and Digital Innovation (Deadline 1 October 2018)

Jan Mendling jan.mendling at wu.ac.at
Thu Jun 28 08:55:02 EDT 2018 

European Journal of Information Systems Contribute to our special issue on
Business Process Management and Digital Innovation

Deadline: 1 October 2018

See also
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/jmj02771-tjis-si-business-process-man
agement-and-digital-innovation 

Business Process Management combines knowledge from information technology
and management science to create methods, techniques, and tools to support
the design, enactment, management, and analysis of operational business
processes (van der Aalst, 2013; vom Brocke & Rosemann, 2014; vom Brocke &
Rosemann, 2015).

One traditional focus of BPM research has always been the role of
information technology in enacting, managing and innovating business
processes. This focus has led to the rise of workflow management systems,
BPM suites, process mining technology and other key technological
innovations.

This special issue will explore how digital technology and innovation
enables, constrains, transforms or otherwise upends the design, enactment,
management, and analysis of operational business processes. We will also
look at how technology, techniques and theory from the management of
business processes can assist an understanding of innovation and change
processes. Recent innovations in Process Organization Studies (Langley and
Tsoukas, 2017) and Routine Dynamics (Feldman et al, 2016) also provide a
rich set of ideas for theorizing processual phenomena from the ground up.

The timing of this special is motivated by the on-going infusion of new
digital technologies – mobile and distributed computing, social media,
digital platforms, data analytics, artificial intelligence, blockchains,
cloud computing, and so forth – into various aspects of business processes.
These innovations generate new possibilities and increase uncertainty for
how business processes operate, how they should be managed, and how process
innovations unfold (vom Brocke & Schmiedel, 2015; vom Brocke & Mendling,
2018).

With this special issue, our aim is to highlight the need to further our
understanding about the dialectic between business process management and
digital innovation: how is business process management affected by, and
affects, digital innovation? 

What can I contribute?

We envisage (but in no way limit) attention to at least four broad themes:

*	The nature of business process management in the digital age: how do
digital innovations transform business process management methods, tools,
systems, architectures, skill set, capabilities, organizational culture?
What does process management look like in world of constant change?
 
*	New digitally enabled management and innovation forms for business
processes: how does digitalization affect business processes on an
individual, process, organization or ecosystem level? What are new types of
processes and new ways of designing, operating, monitoring, inventing and
potentially emerging processes?
 
*	Methodological and empirical opportunities of studying business
processes in the digital age: what affordances does the digital age provide
for collecting, analyzing and theorizing about and with process trace data?
What are opportunities to further our understanding of routines and
artefacts, temporality and sequence?
 
*	Digital technologies, platforms and ecosystems for business process
management: How do digital technologies change certainty, boundaries,
relationality or specificity of business processes? What are relationships
of digital objects in business processes to time, cost, quality, process
standardization, flexibility, creativity, variability, adaptability,
structuredness, knowledge-intensity and other well-known notions?

Why contribute to the European Journal of Information Systems?

*	Your article will be published in a widely read and cited journal,
which has a 2016 impact factor of 2.819 enabling you to effectively
contribute to the development of the research area
*	We’re an official journal of the Operational Research Society
meaning all our members we be able to access and read your research.
*	Your research will be validated by a robust single-blind peer review
process
*	You can share you research using our open access options
*	You can follow the impact of your research using My Authored Works

Important dates

*	Initial Submission of full papers: 01 Oct 2018
*	First round reviews sent to authors: 10 Jan 2019
*	Revised papers due from authors: 31 Mar 2019
*	Second round reviews sent to authors: 30 Jun 2019
*	Final revision due from authors: 31 Aug 2019
*	Publication of special issue: End 2019


Submission instructions


This special issue is associated with the Management Track of the 16th
International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2018). Authors
interested to submit to the special issue are invited to submit a first
version of their papers to this track of the BPM conference. Submission and
participation at BPM 2018 is voluntary. However, participation will provide
the opportunity to obtain initial reviews, meet the editors, and discuss the
potential submission in person. All related information on the website of
the BPM Conference 2018 Management Track

Submissions must be made via the EJIS submission system at
https://ejis.msubmit.net <https://ejis.msubmit.net/> . Please indicate that
you are submitting to the special issue. The EJIS instructions for authors
apply.

Further inquiries

Authors are encouraged to discuss potential submissions with the guest
editors. Please contact the guest editors at jan.mendling at wu.ac.at
<mailto:jan.mendling at wu.ac.at> .

References

FELDMAN MS, PENTLAND BT (2003) Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as
a Source of Flexibility and Change. Administrative Science Quarterly 48(1),
94-118.

FELDMAN MS, PENTLAND BT, D’ADDERIO L and LAZARIC N (2016) Beyond routines as
things: Introduction to the special issue on routine dynamics.  Organization
Science 27(3), 505-513.

LANGLEY A and TSOUKAS H (Eds.) (2016) The Sage Handbook of Process
Organization Studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

VAN DER AALST WMP (2013) Business Process Management: A Comprehensive
Survey. ISRN Software Engineering 2013, 1-37.

VOM BROCKE J and SCHMIEDEL T (Eds.) (2015) BPM - Driving Innovation in a
Digital World. Springer, Cham, Switzerland.


Editorial information


*	Guest Editor: Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and
Business 
*	Guest Editor: Brian T. Pentland, Michigan State University 
*	Guest Editor: Jan Recker, Queensland University of Technology 

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Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien - WU Vienna

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* Marlon Dumas, Marcello La Rosa, Jan Mendling, Hajo A. Reijers:

   Fundamentals of Business Process Management. 2nd Ed. Springer 2018:

    <http://fundamentals-of-bpm.org/> http://fundamentals-of-bpm.org/

* Jan vom Brocke, Jan Mendling (Eds.):

   Business Process Management Cases. Springer 2018:

    <http://www.bpm-cases.com/> http://www.bpm-cases.com/   

* Hans Robert Hansen, Jan Mendling, Gustaf Neumann:

   Wirtschaftsinformatik (11. Aufl.). De Gruyter Studium, de Gruyter 2015:

    <http://lehrbuch-wirtschaftsinformatik.org/>
http://lehrbuch-wirtschaftsinformatik.org/

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