-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] 2nd Call for Papers: BISE/WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK: Special Focus on Business Process Management (Due date: 2011-11-01) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 08:21:08 +0200 From: Maximilian Roeglinger maximilian.roeglinger@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org CC: becker@ercis.uni-muenster.de, mzurmuehlen@stevens.edu

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BISE/WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK ? Call for Papers Issue 5/2012

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT

Business processes are recognized as a key factor in the design of corporations and their information systems. However, unlike other key managerial variables such as products and services, customers and employees, physical or digital assets (e.g. data, information), the conceptualization, representation and management of business processes are still in their infancy in many respects.

The demand for business process management (BPM) is grounded in the ongoing pressure to improve operational efficiency, opportunities created by process outsourcing/offshoring and the interest in making organizational behavior more predictable and risk-aware. Industry interest is strong in process standards such as widely accepted BPM maturity assessments, modeling notations such as BPMN, or process reference content such as ITIL, HL7 and SCOR.

A large body of knowledge related to modeling, simulating and executing business processes exists. However, BPM has scarcely been subjected to ?classic? IS/BISE questions that go beyond the design of BPM systems and address the adoption, use, implications and success of BPM approaches and technologies in organizations. This special focus is dedicated to the wider adoption of IS/BISE research in the important domain of BPM. We explicitly encourage submissions that describe research using a wide variety of approaches, covering quantitative and qualitative, empirical and theoretical research methodologies such as case studies, action research, surveys, experiments and Design Science.

RESEARCH COVERAGE

This special focus on BPM invites contributions related to the entire domain of BPM covering BPM as an enterprise-wide capability, process (re-)design projects and the development and use of process-aware information systems. Among others, we welcome papers covering the following topics:

- BPM Maturity Management - Governance of Processes, and of BPM initiatives - Value, successes and failures of BPM initiatives - Adoption of BPM in distinct regions/industries/functional areas - Process outsourcing/offshoring - Process Innovation - Process-aware Information Systems - Process Performance Measurement and Analytics - BPM and Social Computing - BPM and Decision Making - Process Automation - BPM and Service-oriented Architectures

SUBMISSION

Please submit papers for the sections BISE - Research Paper and BISE - State of the Art by 2011-11-01 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) / WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK. Papers should not exceed 10 pages; this amounts to 50,000 characters including spaces, minus 5,000 characters per page for illustrations. Detailed authors? guidelines can be downloaded from http://www.bise-journal.org and http://www.wirtschaftsinformatik.de.

All papers will be reviewed anonymously (double-blind process) by several referees with regard to relevance, originality, and research quality. In addition to the editors of the journal, including those of this special focus, distinguished national and international professionals with scientific and practical backgrounds will be involved in the review process.

Complementary articles covering topics of this special focus are more than welcome.

Accepted papers will appear identically in English and German. The English-language version will appear in Business& Information Systems Engineering (BISE), the German-language version will appear in WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK. Accepted papers will be translated in close cooperation with the authors and a professional team of translators.

SCHEDULE

Submission deadline: 2011-11-01 Author notification: 2012-01-10 Completion of first revision: 2012-02-28 Author notification: 2012-04-17 Completion of a second revision (if needed, monolingual): 2012-05-22 Completion of a second revision (if needed, bilingual): 2012-06-19 Planned publication date of Issue 5/2012: October 2012

EDITORS OF THE SPECIAL FOCUS

Michael Rosemann Information Systems Discipline Faculty of Science and Engineering Queensland University of Technology Brisbane Qld 4000 Australia m.rosemann@qut.edu.au

Michael zur Muehlen Howe School of Technology Management Stevens Institute of Technology Castle Point on Hudson Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA mzurmuehlen@stevens.edu

Jörg Becker European Research Center for Information Systems University of Münster Germany becker@ercis.uni-muenster.de

Maximilian Röglinger FIM Research Center Finance& Information Management University of Augsburg Germany maximilian.roeglinger@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de

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