Collaboration Patterns and Topic Trends in Business Process Management Conferences

Year 2023, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 88 - 107, 31.12.2023

Muhammet Damar , Güzin Özdağoğlu , Onur Özveri

https://doi.org/10.47899/ijss.1328084

Abstract

One of the most important scientific activities in which business process management (BPM) research attempts have been presented is the BPM Conferences that have been organized since 2003. These conferences guide the future of the field concerning different aspects of the subject. This study focuses on the accumulated literature that BPM conferences have constituted. In this regard, it aims to investigate the portfolio of BPM conferences to pinpoint the trends that have been followed over the years. A bibliometric dataset of the proceedings between 2005 and 2020 was extracted. The methods of scientometrics and bibliometrics are adopted to reveal the collaborations and clusters regarding citations, co-authorships, co-occurrences of keywords, and topic structures, the trends, and summary statistics. Clusters have emerged around certain authors and these authors are pioneering researchers who direct international studies on BPM and have created many research and development opportunities with their research laboratories. The situation in author relations is also reflected in the statistics of institutions and countries. With the keyword and abstract analyses at different depths and dimensions, inferences were made about the topics discussed at the BPM Conferences. Co-authorship analyses regarding authors and countries revealed the clusters around the authors and their countries such as Van der Aalst (Netherlands), Mendling (Austria), Weske (Germany), Dumas (Estonia), La Rossa (Australia), and Reijers (Netherlands). It has been observed that the keywords that have been recorded intensively in the last five years are concentrated around the topics of industry 4.0, big data, internet of things, blockchain, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. In general terms, it has been observed that especially the topics such as process mining, semantic structures of processes, business process execution language, and related projects have come to the fore. Findings emphasize that these topics have been affected by the business and technology dynamics of the relevant period.

Keywords

Scientometrics, Bibliometrics, Business Process Management Conferences, Collaborations, Topic Modelling

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İş Süreçleri Yönetimi Konferanslarının İşbirliği Örüntüleri ve Konu Eğilimleri

Abstract

İş süreçleri yönetimi (İSY) araştırma girişimlerinin sunulduğu en önemli bilimsel etkinliklerden biri, 2003 yılından bu yana düzenlenen İSY Konferanslarıdır. Bu konferanslar, konunun farklı yönleri ile ilgili olarak alanın geleceğine rehberlik etmektedir. Bu çalışma, İSY konferanslarının oluşturduğu birikimli literatüre odaklanmaktadır ve bu bağlamda, yıllar boyunca takip edilen eğilimleri belirlemek için İSY konferans bildirileri portföyünü incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. 2005 ile 2020 yılları arasındaki yayınların bibliyometrik veri seti çıkarılmış, alıntılar, ortak yazarlıklar, anahtar kelimelerin birlikte oluşumları ve konu yapılarının yanı sıra eğilimler ve özet istatistikleri ile ilgili işbirliklerini ve kümeleri ortaya çıkarmak için bilimetri ve bibliometri yöntemleri benimsenmiştir. Bu alanda belirli yazarlar etrafında kümelenmeler ortaya çıkmıştır. Bu yazarlar, BPM konusunda uluslararası çalışmalara yön veren, araştırma laboratuvarlarıyla pek çok araştırma ve geliştirme olanağı yaratmış öncü araştırmacılardır. Yazar ilişkilerinde var olan durum kurum ve ülke istatistiklerine de yansımaktadır. Farklı derinliklerde ve boyutlarda gerçekleştirilen anahtar kelime ve özet analizleri ile BPM Konferanslarında ele alınan konular hakkında çıkarımlar yapılmıştır. Yazar ve Ülkeler ile ilgili ortak yazarlık analizleri Van der Aalst (Hollanda), Mendling (Avusturya), Weske (Almanya), Dumas (Estonya), La Rossa (Avustralya), and Reijers (Hollanda) gibi araştırmacıların etrafında kümelenmelerin olduğunu ortaya çıkarmıştır. Son beş yılda yoğun bir şekilde kaydedilen anahtar kelimelerin endüstri 4.0, büyük veri, nesnelerin interneti, blok zinciri, bulut bilişim ve yapay zeka konuları etrafında yoğunlaştığı görülmüştür. Genel çerçevesiyle, son yıllarda özellikle, süreç madenciliği , süreçlerin semantik yapıları, süreç uygulaması geliştirme dilleri ve ilgili projeler gibi konuların ön plana çıktığı ve bu konuların ilgili dönemin iş ve teknoloji dinamiklerinden doğrudan etkilendiği gözlenmektedir.

Keywords

Bilimetri, Bibliometri, İş Süreçleri Yönetimi Konferansları, İşbirlikleri, Konu Modelleme

Supporting Institution

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Thanks

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