Digital transformation has far-reaching effects on business and society. While the literature to date has mainly considered the positive opportunities associated with digital innovations at the consumer interface in terms of products and services, the impact on asset-intensive organisations has...

Blockchains have the potential to disrupt many of the assumptions that we hold about market transactions. As a result of the new technology, different forces will come into play, providing both opportunities and challenges for market agents who will be forced to redesign their interactions with...

This article presents a fencing network perspective to describe the process and motives of the internationalization of emerging market multinationals. Emerging market multinationals use a fencing network internationalization model, through merge and acquisitions, to strategically redirect...

The large number of available process modelling languages has given rise to the need for evaluation and comparison of their representational capabilities. Over the last few years, the research community has risen to the challenge by carrying out a significant amount of work in the area of such...

The increased interest in a more disciplined approach for Business Process Management has motivated many organizations to make significant investments in process modelling initiatives. This, in turn, has triggered significant related research. One outcome of this development is the Business...

Business process modeling has emerged as an immensely popular purpose of conceptual modeling in practice. Research on business process modeling is based on diverse topics of research methods and covers a wide area including modeling techniques, methodologies, methods and tools, but increasingly...

Today, organisations may have production applications running on multiple servers, spread geographically throughout the organization. In such circumstances, organisations will look to software assistance through packages collectively known as Enterprise Management Systems (EMS). This paper shows...

Process is perennial. Within any business activity or enterprise it is crucial that the variable of "operational efficiency" is maintained at sufficiently high levels, such that the return on investment is sustainable enough to justify its continued existence. Business Process Management (BPM)...

Modern business process modeling languages such as BPMN or EPC provide users with more constructs to represent real world situations than their predecessors such as IDEF or Petri Nets. But this apparent increase in expressiveness is accompanied by an increase in language complexity. In practice...