Green BPM as a Business-Oriented Discipline: A Systematic Mapping Study and Research Agenda

Abstract

Green Business Process Management (BPM) focuses on the ecological impact of business processes. This article provides a systematic mapping study of Green BPM literature to evaluate five attributes of the Green BPM research area: (1) scope, (2) disciplines, (3) accountability, (4) researchers and (5) quality control. The results allow developing a research agenda to enhance Green BPM as an approach for environmentally sustainable organizations. We rely on a dichotomy of knowledge production to present research directives relevant for both academics and practitioners in order to help close a rigor-relevance gap. The involvement of both communities is crucial for Green BPM to advance as an applied, business-oriented discipline.

Towards a Modeling Method for Business Process Oriented Organizational Life Cycle Assessment

“…While several approaches to adapt or extend existing modeling languages for Sustainable BPM exist [23], a comprehensive modeling method, that guides users in taking a life cycle, multi-impact perspective is missing. So far, one can observe a strong focus on the environmental dimension of sustainability, singular indicators like energy use and carbon emissions [4]. Often, it is assumed that improving one business process will lead to a more sustainable organization (see e.g.…”

“…Taking these observations into consideration, on the one hand, it appears necessary that future Sustainable BPM research learns from environmental sciences [4]. O-LCA with its rigorous understanding of sustainability and strong tradition [2] may provide a useful conceptual frame for such efforts.…”

Environmental Sustainability through Green Business Process Management

“…the Green BPM context. Couckuyt and Van Looy (2019) conducted an SLR on the contribution of BPM, operations management and IS publications to ES. The study identified the number of research studies from various disciplines, the range of environmental topics, the affiliations contributing to ES, and the types of scholarly contributions.…”

“…All 49 publications were repeatedly examined to identify the presence of the concepts mentioned above. Moreover, we identified and included literature reviews (Couckuyt & Van Looy, 2019;Maciel, 2017;Schoormann et al, 2017;Stolze et al, 2012) in our literature set for completeness. While the EPIs and organizational factors were identified from the literature before coding the 49 articles, a set of BPM concepts (presented in section 5) emerged through consolidating the 'BPM concept' code and recoding all papers iteratively.…”

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