An Overview of Challenges and Research Avenues for Green Business Process Management

Purpose Green Business Process Management (BPM) focusses on the ecological impact of business processes. Although it is an emerging field, different attitudes exist towards the discipline’s name, the objectives and the approaches to realise them. By means of a systematic literature review, the purpose of this paper is to arrive at a common understanding of the discipline for successful development. Design/methodology/approach The review methodology relies on a hermeneutic framework which integrates the search, analysis and interpretation of the literature. The sample is used in a text analysis to find an appropriate definition (RQ1), a bibliometric analysis to give insights in current Green BPM contributions (RQ2) and a content analysis to present differences with conventional BPM (RQ3). Findings Green BPM follows a similar development as conventional BPM, namely from a more technical perspective to also including the managerial perspective. More research is required that goes beyond the traditional business process lifecycle. Originality/value The research questions generated a comprehensive overview about application domains and research topics, which in turn can deliver benefits for both research and practitioner-related communities. Researchers identify future research avenues, while practitioners find appropriate Green BPM techniques for their domain.

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Green Business Process Management

10.1007/978-3-642-27488-6 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Keyword(s):

Business Process ◽

Business Process Management ◽

Process Management ◽

Green Business

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Study on green business process management system of small and medium real estate enterprise

2011 Second International Conference on Mechanic Automation and Control Engineering ◽

10.1109/mace.2011.5988842 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Yifeng Zhang ◽

Licun Yang

Keyword(s):

Real Estate ◽

Business Process ◽

Management System ◽

Business Process Management ◽

Process Management ◽

Real Estate Enterprise ◽

Green Business

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Green Business Process Management

Green Business Process Management ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-27488-6_1 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 3-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Stefan Seidel ◽

Jan Recker ◽

Jan vom Brocke

Keyword(s):

Business Process ◽

Business Process Management ◽

Process Management ◽

Green Business

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Environmental Sustainability through Green Business Process Management

Australasian Journal of Information Systems ◽

10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2057 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 24 ◽

Author(s):

Shahrzad Roohy Gohar ◽

Marta Indulska

Keyword(s):

Environmental Impacts ◽

Business Process ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Business Process Management ◽

Process Management ◽

Organizational Factors ◽

Green Business ◽

The Impact ◽

Environmental Performance Indicators

The climate change phenomenon, directly or indirectly, affects industries and nations. Governments and organizations have been challenged to identify their environmental impacts to address environmental sustainability issues. A promising, yet under-studied in this context, theme of information systems (IS) literature that has the potential to help with identifying, quantifying and managing environmental impacts is business process management (BPM). With its focus on continual process performance improvement, the capacity of BPM to contribute to Environmental Sustainability (ES) needs to be further explored. Yet, contributions from the BPM research community and the impact of these contributions appear to be fragmented. In this paper, we present a systematic literature review to explore BPM contributions to ES, with a focus on environmental performance indicators (EPIs) as well as relevant organizational factors related to ES and BPM. In doing so, we identify and explore ‘Green BPM’ contributions and suggest ways to advance BPM research in the context of ES.

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