Advancing Business Process Science via the Co-evolution of Substantive and Methodological Knowledge

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The International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM) is a conference series with some remarkable successes over the last 20 years. In this paper, we discuss how neighboring fields have made progress. A key observation is the co-evolution of the problem and solution spaces: methodological innovations yield substantive advancements and, in turn, substantive findings help to improve methods. We discuss implications of this observation for business process science.

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Mendling, J. (2022). Advancing Business Process Science via the Co-evolution of Substantive and Methodological Knowledge. In: Di Ciccio, C., Dijkman, R., del Río Ortega, A., Rinderle-Ma, S. (eds) Business Process Management. BPM 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13420. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16103-2_1

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