Business Process Flexibility: Weick's Organizational Theory to the Rescue
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For organizations to flourish in a changing environment, their business processes need to be flexible. Designing flexible business processes is a challenge. We use Weick’s theory of organizing to propose some principles for designing flexible business processes and derive some requirements for business process and support system.
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