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J. vom Brocke, J. Becker, A. Braccini, B. Hofreiter, G. Schmidt, G. Vossen, R. Winter et al.:
"Current and future issues in BPM research: a European perspective from the ERCIS meeting 2010";
Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 1 (2011), 28; S. 393 - 414.

Business process management (BPM) is a still-emerging field in the academic discipline of Information Systems
(IS). This article reflects on a workshop on current and future issues in BPM research that was conducted by
seventeen IS researchers from eight European countries as part of the 2010 annual meeting of the European
Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS). The results of this workshop suggest that BPM research can
meaningfully contribute to investigating a broad variety of phenomena that are of interest to IS scholars, ranging
from rather technical (e.g., the implementation of software architectures) to managerial (e.g., the impact of
organizational culture on process performance). It further becomes noticeable that BPM researchers can make use
of several research strategies, including qualitative, quantitative, and design-oriented approaches. The article offers
the participants´ outlook on the future of BPM research and combines their opinions with research results from the
academic literature on BPM, with the goal of contributing to establishing BPM as a distinct field of research in the IS
discipline.

business process management, research agenda, European Research Center for Information Systems