Synthesis and decomposition of processes in organizations
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Basu, A; Blanning, RW
署名单位：
Southern Methodist University; Vanderbilt University
刊物名称：
INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH
ISSN/ISSBN：
1047-7047
DOI：
10.1287/isre.14.4.337.24901
发表日期：
2003
页码：
337-355
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摘要：
Organizations today face increasing pressures to integrate their processes across disparate divisions and functional units, in order to remove inefficiencies as well as to enhance manageability. Process integration involves two major types of changes to process structure: (1) synthesizing processes from separate but interdependent subprocesses, and (2) decomposing aggregate processes into distinct subprocesses that are more manageable. We present an approach to facilitate this type of synthesis and decomposition through formal analysis of process structure using a mathematical structure called a metagraph.