[AISWorld] BISE Call for Papers "Managing the Dynamics of Business Processes"

[Janiesch, Christian]

*** Please note that we will invite selected submissions from the BPM (management) tracks at ECIS 2023 (submission closed), BPM 2023 (submission March 15), and ICIS 2023 (submission early May) to revise their work for the SI. So write now, don't delay until November! ***


Business process management (BPM) is a holistic management discipline with an established toolbox and lifecycle of management activities. It is a source of constant innovation and can provide companies with competitive advantage. While the execution of business processes with so-called BPM systems is well-understood, there is a constant influx of novel technologies and management ideas that challenge and possibly re-shape the core of BPM.

In response, recent claims emphasize that the traditional assumptions of BPM are increasingly challenged in the digital age. As new digital technologies emerge, new data streams become available and new customer needs take shape, organizations need to grapple with ever increasing dynamics in their business environments. The challenge for BPM is thus tied to a tension between stability and change. On the one hand, organizations need to ensure that their business processes are stable and reliable to some extent, and on the other hand, they need to consider and react to these dynamics to remain competitive.

There is emerging interest around the question of how organizations can manage their business processes as they embrace such dynamics. We are, however, only beginning to understand what this means for BPM in more general terms. Hence, the aim of this special issue is to provide space to various aspects related to managing the dynamics from a BPM point of view. To this end, we are interested in a variety of perspectives that cover technical as well as organizational and managerial aspects.

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*** Invited Contribution ***

The ambition behind this special issue in Business & Information Systems Engineering is to provide a space for original contributions that investigate how the dynamics of business processes can be represented, explained, and managed. Considering the strong role that emerging digital technologies play in BPM, we explicitly encourage submissions with a socio-technical focus, merging organizational, managerial, and technology-related perspectives. We welcome empirical contributions that pursue descriptive, explanatory, or prescriptive research; we also welcome conceptual work, design-oriented research, as well as reviews and surveys if they provide a unique own contribution to the discussion.

Submissions should consider – but are not limited to – the following questions:

Organizational and managerial aspects:
• How can we manage business processes in dynamic, self-organizing environments, e.g., agile or holacracy?
• What are the skills and capabilities of modern BPM managers who successfully leverage digital technologies?
• What is the impact of lightweight automation on the managerial practices of BPM?
• What kind of novel managerial tools do we need to harness hyperautomation?
• What are challenges and opportunities of managing business processes when the behavior of process participants is made visible through digital traces?
• To what extent can theories and methods from the organizational and managerial sciences help to explain and manage the dynamics of business processes?

Technical aspects:
• How can BPM technologies integrate seamlessly with emerging technologies (e.g., AI, RPA, Blockchain, IoT)?
• How can AI technology enable more dynamic decision making in business processes?
• How does the concept of AI change the interaction and delegation between human and machine in business processes?
• How do heavyweight systems (i.e., BPM) and lightweight systems (e.g., RPA) integrate harmoniously?
• How can RPA be made more flexible and smarter to cope with dynamics of business processes?
• How can data-driven process management be facilitated by the next generation of BPM systems?

*** Submission Guidelines ***

Please submit papers by 1 Nov 2023 at the latest via the journal’s online submission system (http://www.editorialmanager.com/buis/). Please observe the instructions regarding the format and size of contributions to Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE). Papers should adhere to the submission general BISE author guidelines (https://www.bise-journal.com/author_guidelines).

All papers will be reviewed anonymously (double-blind process) by at least two referees regarding relevance, originality, and research quality. In addition to the editors of the journal, including those of this special focus, distinguished international scholars will be involved in the review process.

*** Planned Schedule ***

Submission Deadline: 01 November 2023
Author Notification 1: 23 December 2023
Completion Revision 1: 01 March 2024
Author Notification 2: 15 April 2024
Completion of Revision 2: 22 May 2024

*** The complete call for paper can be found at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-022-00777-5 ***

You SI Guest Editors
Thomas Grisold, Christian Janiesch, Maximilian Röglinger, and Moe Thandar Wynn

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