Blockchains for Business Process Management - Challenges and Opportunities

Jan Mendling; Ingo Weber; Wil Van Der Aalst; Jan Vom Brocke; Cristina Cabanillas; Florian Daniel; Søren Debois; Claudio Di Ciccio; Marlon Dumas; Schahram Dustdar; Avigdor Gal; Luciano García-Bañuelos; Guido Governatori; Richard Hull; Marcello La Rosa; Henrik Leopold; Frank Leymann; Jan Recker; Manfred Reichert; Hajo A. Reijers; Stefanie Rinderle-Ma; Andreas Solti; Michael Rosemann; Stefan Schulte; Munindar P. Singh; Tijs Slaats; Mark Staples; Barbara Weber; Matthias Weidlich; Mathias Weske; Xiwei Xu; Liming Zhu

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Blockchains for Business Process Management - Challenges and Opportunities

Jan Mendling, Ingo Weber, Wil Van Der Aalst, Jan Vom Brocke, Cristina Cabanillas, Florian Daniel, Søren Debois, Claudio Di Ciccio, Marlon Dumas, Schahram Dustdar, Avigdor Gal, Luciano García-Bañuelos, Guido Governatori, Richard Hull, Marcello La Rosa, Henrik Leopold, Frank Leymann, Jan Recker, Manfred Reichert, Hajo A. ReijersStefanie Rinderle-Ma, Andreas Solti, Michael Rosemann, Stefan Schulte, Munindar P. Singh, Tijs Slaats, Mark Staples, Barbara Weber, Matthias Weidlich, Mathias Weske, Xiwei Xu, Liming Zhu

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Abstract

Blockchain technology offers a sizable promise to rethink the way interorganizational business processes are managed because of its potential to realize execution without a central party serving as a single point of trust (and failure). To stimulate research on this promise and the limits thereof, in this article, we outline the challenges and opportunities of blockchain for business process management (BPM). We first reflect how blockchains could be used in the context of the established BPM lifecycle and second how they might become relevant beyond. We conclude our discourse with a summary of seven research directions for investigating the application of blockchain technology in the context of BPM.

Original language	English
Journal	Transactions on Management Information Systems
Volume	9
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	4:1-4:16
ISSN	2158-656X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3183367
Publication status	Published - 2018

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business process management
Blockchain
research challenges

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Mendling, J., Weber, I., Aalst, W. V. D., Brocke, J. V., Cabanillas, C., Daniel, F., Debois, S., Ciccio, C. D., Dumas, M., Dustdar, S., Gal, A., García-Bañuelos, L., Governatori, G., Hull, R., Rosa, M. L., Leopold, H., Leymann, F., Recker, J., Reichert, M., ... Zhu, L. (2018). Blockchains for Business Process Management - Challenges and Opportunities. Transactions on Management Information Systems, 9(1), 4:1-4:16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3183367

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