Understanding Business Process Evolution in Digital Ventures

Wuttke,Tobias; Haskamp, Thomas; Perscheid, Michael; Uebernickel, Falk


Abstract

Business processes are at each company’s core and must be adaptedpermanently to react to changing markets, substantial growth, or legal regulations.Especially digital ventures have the potential to evolve fast, and consequently, theirbusiness processes need to change at the same speed. Two streams of literaturehave looked into this. Traditional business process management sees businessprocesses, once implemented, as relatively stable. In contrast, digital entrepreneur-ship literature highlights the inherent flexibility of digital ventures. Based on amultiple case study of five digital ventures, we analyze how entrepreneurs dealwith this tension when business processes evolve. Building on entrepreneurialbricolage, we propose two types of resource recombination that we find, namely,usage of existing private resources and re-configuring of resources already beingused within the venture. These insights contribute to extending our understandingof the evolution of business processes.

Keywords
digital ventures; digital entrepreneurship; business process management; business process evolution



Publication type
Research article in proceedings (conference)

Peer reviewed
Yes

Publication status
Published

Year
2023

Conference
Wirtschaftsinformatik 2023

Venue
Paderborn

Book title
Wirtschaftsinformatik 2023 Proceedings

Editor
Beverungen, Daniel; Lehrer, Christiane; Trier, Matthias

Start page
1

End page
1

Publisher
AIS eLibrary

Place
Paderborn

Language
English

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