Kaizen: the applicability of Japanese techniques to IT

User acceptance of knowledge-based system recommendations: Explanations, arguments, and fit

“…This stress can cause a withdrawal from the technology [79]. Conversely, lack of stress due to fit can cause an increase in motivation to perform the task and in the satisfaction associated with performing the task [80].…”

Science Mapping the Research of Business Process Management: Patterns and Implications for Comparable Information Technology Fields

“…BPM could be located on a map of IT fields, located at the intersection of Computer and Information science(s), which has been developed by (Iwami et al, 2020), in their study of scientific field(s) co-evolution, based on the bibliometric indicators and time series analysis. Those fields could be described in terms of the Applied Science, IT Systems and Networks section of the IT fields research map created by these authors (Iwami et al, 2020, p. 11), and refer to a potentially wide range of topics, such as Business Intelligence (BI) and Big Data (BD), Cloud Computing (CC), Knowledge Management (KM), Smart Cities (SC), etc.…”

“…Unfortunately, none of these studies provides a historical analysis of the field's literature and the recognition of its development drivers, which could be useful to further explore the drivers of the coevolving IT fields, which were hinted by Iwami et al (2020). Therefore, our results can be extremely helpful, not only in understanding the drivers of theorizing in the BPM field of research but also in proposing how the patterns of BPM theory development could help uncover the trends in the 'borderline' Computer/Information Science research fields.…”

“…Another benefit of the PDCA/PDSA cycle, when used as a conceptual tool for science mapping, is that its steps are typical, clearly demarcated stages, implying that an organization moving through them achieves a higher level of learning and continuous development. This is clearly shown by the conceptual identification of the multiple cycles of implementing the PDCA/PDSA methodology with the Japanese continuous improvement philosophy of 'kaizen', leading to a higher level of organizational quality and performance (Huda & Preston, 1992). In addition, this framework has already been used as one of the dimensions in the classification of the Green BPM literature (Opitz et al, 2014), as well as a classifying framework in the recent review of literature in the field of Smart Cities (Ninčević Pašalić et al, 2021) and in field of simulation modeling (Jadric et al, 2020), which supports its usage in the context of evaluating the core BPM literature corpus.…”

“…An attempt to generalize the research findings across the comparable multi-disciplinary fields located at the intersection of Computer and Information science(s), follows up on the recent empirical findings on the co-evolution of 28 research fields (Iwami et al, 2020). Their conclusions of field coevolutions (op.…”