Business Process Flexibility: Weick's Organizational Theory to the Rescue

Abstract. 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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CAISE
• Authors: Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann
• Keywords: CAISE 2006, Designing, Flexible Business Processes, Information Management, Weick's Theory