CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on Change, Drift, and Dynamics of Organizational Processes at the 22nd International Conference on Business Process Management: https://prody.ai.wu.ac.at/
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IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop papers submission deadline: June 7, 2024 (AoE)
Workshop papers notification deadline: (tentative): July 5, 2024
Workshop camera-ready papers deadline: July 19, 2024
Workshop: September 2, 2024
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WORKSOP DESCRIPTION
Unique contributions of this workshop:
· This workshop brings together different perspectives and research streams on change, drift, and dynamics of organizational processes
· This workshop reaches out to researchers from organization sciences and information systems research to stronger engage with the BPM Conference. At the same time, we welcome submissions relating to classic BPM research on process drift and process change
· Co-Organizer Waldemar Kremser is a key researcher from the organization sciences who has co-founded the Routines.Research.Community
· There is a vibrant discourse on dynamics of routines in information systems research, as exemplified by seminal works such as Leonardi (MISQ 2011) being cited more than 1,000 times
· This workshop plays a key role in building a bridge between these research communities and bring new groups of researchers to the BPM Conference
Organizational processes are everything but stable, but they change over time. This change is connected with various factors inside and outside the organization. Different descriptions of change phenomena have been discussed in the literature such as incremental or seasonal drift, endogenous and exogenous change, along with roadblocks and enablers for process change. Recent research investigates, among others, how we can detect drifts in organizational processes, how we can use process mining to make change visible, how we can theorize change of processes, and which methods can support the design of new versions of processes.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together different perspectives and research fields on change, drift, and dynamics of organizational processes and provide them a stage for mutual exchange. To facilitate this, we invite conceptual, technical, and empirical papers addressing various aspects that relate to changes, drifts, and dynamics of organizational processes. Related terms covered by recent BPM research and neighboring disciplines that we specifically welcome are process evolution, routine dynamics, exogenous and endogenous change, process drift detection, etc. We encourage submissions from different epistemologies and applying different research methods. We invite submissions from Business Process Management, but also from other connected research areas, such as Routine Dynamics, Information Systems, and Computer Science.
The workshop is planned as a half-day event and comprises the presentation of accepted papers. There will be two types of papers. First, we will have regular papers that will be published in the post-proceeding volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. Second, we will invite submitted papers that cannot be published as research-in-progress presentations with the aim to foster discussions among the workshop participants and provide feedback to the authors. Moreover, we plan a discussion session for outlining future research directions and for motivating joint research efforts of participants.
Submissions can address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
· What are novel techniques to detect drift in organizational processes?
· How do business processes or process-related aspects change over time?
· How can change of business processes be studied methodologically?
· How can change of business processes be conceptually described and theorized?
· How do process change initiatives unfold and what are their effects?
· Which kind of unintended change of business processes exist and how do they unfold?
· Which kind of positive and negative deviance emerges from process change?
· How can techniques like process mining help to investigate process dynamics?
· How do specific technologies (e.g., robotic process automation) trigger change in organizational processes?
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the workshop topics. Accepted papers will be published. Length of full papers must not exceed 12 pages and comply ´with the LNBIP format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0). Papers have to present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (regular paper/position paper/tool report).
The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Business Process Management hosted by the AGH University of Krakow in Krakow, Poland, from 1 to 6 September 2024.
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Bastian Wurm (LMU Munich School of Management)
Waldemar Kremser (Johannes Kepler Universität Linz)
Jan Mendling (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
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If you have any questions, please contact Bastian Wurm (bastian.wurm@lmu.de).
Best regards,
Bastian, Waldemar, and Jan
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Waldemar Kremser
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Linz
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