Natural and man-made hazards may affect industrial production sites by both direct losses (due to physical damage to assets and buildings) and indirect losses (production losses). Indirect losses, e.g. from production downtimes, can exceed direct losses multiple times. Thus, the vulnerability of industrial sectors to indirect losses is an important component of risk and its determination is an ...

Today, companies face the challenge to effectively and efficiently perform their business processes as well as to guarantee their continuous operation. To meet the economic requirements, companies often consult business process management experts. The robustness and continuity of operations is separately considered in other domains such as business continuity management and risk management. The...

Data-centric approaches to business process management, in general, no longer require specific activities to be executed in a certain order, but instead data values must be present in business objects for a successful completion. While this holds the promise of more flexible processes, the addition of the data perspective results in increased complexity. Therefore, data-centric approaches must ...

Business Process Management (BPM) involves identifying, modeling, understanding, rethinking and redesigning business processes so that they can achieve the organization’s goals. Using a goal oriented approach to model business process, such as i*, can systematically guide the alignment of the business processes with the strategic goals of the organization. In fact, there are more popular techni...

Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) as an integrated concept has gained great interest recently among researchers in the Information Systems (IS) field. The need for more effective and efficient business processes in the area of financial controls drives enterprises to successfully implement GRC systems as an overall goal when they are striving for enterprise value of their integrated systems...

Nowadays, where most of the leading economies are service oriented and e-business is being widely used for their management, supply chain management has become one of the most studied and practiced fields. Quality has an important role on today’s business processes, so it is important to understand the impact of IT service quality on the performance of supply chains. This paper will start by an...

As enterprise systems develop, the integration of various business management dimensions becomes increasingly important. However, historical disciplinary boundaries between information systems and management sciences can obstruct this path to integration. For example, risk management is generally considered as a business process within process engineering, while in the context of management sci...

A choreography specifies the interactions between the resources of multiple collaborating parties at design time. The runtime management of authorization policies in order to support such a specification is however tedious for administrators to manually handle. By compiling the choreography into enhanced authorization policies, we are able to automatically derive the minimal authorizations requ...

Business rules management solutions are widely applied, standalone or in combination with business process management solutions. Yet scientific research on business rules management solutions is limited. The purpose of this paper is to define the business rules management solution problem space. Using contingency theory and relational theory as our lens, we conducted a qualitative study on 39 b...

Our paper follows the development of theory regarding position risk and uncertainty in economics from publication works by Knight (1921) Keynes until recent past. The starting point is presented relevant remarks thinkers classical economics. Next, we describe turning related to reveal theoretical roots taking. In core chapter authors make an attempt re-interpret “animal spirits” as intention fo...