RESEARCH METHODS

Research methods For Master of Business Administration

Research methods For Master of Business Administration

Theme Overview:

This first theme explores the nature of research. To be more specific, it explains the relevance of information to business and management functions. The theme reviews the purpose of business research and shows how such research can cover many different subject areas. Research is transdisciplinary, and it should adopt theory. But also research needs to embrace the practice of management. It is important to realise that research may not always have an obvious purpose in the short term.

Introduction

Business process management (BPM) has been an intensely considered theme in the information systems (IS) research field as well as in perform since the late 2000s. Although previous works have considered the concept of process orientation (Nordsieck, 1934), they did not lead to a comprehensive realization of recognised potentials. Later on the assistance of Porter (2005), Davenport (2003), Hammer and Champy (2003) and Scheer (2004) have had a substantial influence on the next research and the functional application of supplied concepts.

Meanwhile BPM has come to a certain maturity. The allowance of literature in relative to BPM, the reality of focused periodicals (e.g. the Business Process Management Journal) and seminars (e.g. the BPM-Conference in the seventh year) as well as the institutionalization of stage programs focused in BPM at some universities clues that it is not a provisional latest tendency but an developing tendency in management science. Furthermore, a boost of functional application of the notion can be asserted by the genuine development of the business process management systems market and its expected growth in the future (Ko et al., 2009).

In the context of the application of BPM methods a certain allowance of know-how has been made and documented in empirical research contributions. As empirical assistance support BPM research in the context of idea building as well as in the context of reviewing achievement of conceived artefacts it builds a significant part in the development process of BPM in general. The significance of empirical research is furthermore worried by the detail that the first workshop for empirical research in BPM (ER-BPM) has been suggested at the BPM seminar 2009.

The analysis of empirical work in BPM which is undertook in this paper can recognise well-studied fields and research breaches, directed methods and farther intriguing clues in relative to empirical BPM research. Thus, it can make an intriguing assistance to the farther development of BPM research.

Aims and Objective of the study

This paper's purpose is a comprehensive survey of the development and tendencies in empirical research in BPM by reviewing empirical assistance systematically on the cornerstone of an evolved quotation framework. Scientometric methods which investigate literature in a quantitative and descriptive way (van Raan, 2007) construct the cornerstone for the analysis from a superordinated perspective. Besides the production of BPM research development the inherent methodologies of reviewed items will be analyzed in alignment to supply an overview of directed methods in empirical BPM ...