Dear Colleagues,

Processes are the building blocks of organizations. The predominant field of practice which focuses on business processes is that of business processes management (BPM). BPM includes concepts, methods, and techniques to support the design, administration, configuration, enactment, and analysis of business processes.  The BPM discipline investigates an organization’s capability to achieve benefits connected with efficiency, effectiveness, quality, innovation, and compliance. The process management approach has its origins in the school of thought that emphasizes quality, but it gained force in the late 1980s by Hammer and Champy, Davenport, and Short with the introduction of business process reengineering (BPR). By then, the global competitive business environment as well as the fierce introduction of emerging technologies had led to the evolution of process-centric concepts, methods, and approaches such as process improvement and innovation, business process modeling, business process automation, and workflow management. Following recent calls to make BPM more relevant to existing business needs, an evolution from business process lifecycle and business process management to business process orientation has been observed, and scholars have introduced new ideas, such as sustainable (or green) process management and agile business process management.

This Special Issue invites authors to contribute with papers addressing the role of BPM in contemporary organizations. It welcomes research work as well as practical applications connected with the organizational introduction of emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, Industry 4.0, business intelligence, and process mining. It also encourages the submission of papers addressing the role of business process management in the adoption of contemporary management practices, such as lean management, sustainability management, and agile management.

Prof. Dr. Nikolaos A. Panayiotou
Guest Editor

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• business process management
• BPM, business process lifecycle
• business process modeling
• business process orientation
• sustainable process management
• green process management
• agile process management
• IoT
• Industry 4.0
• lean business processes
• process mining
• business intelligence