TY  - JOUR
TI  - Blockchains for Business Process Management - Challenges and Opportunities
AB  - 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.
DO  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3183367
SP  - 1
EP  - 16
PY  - 2018-01-01
JO  - ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems
AU  - Mendling, Jan 
AU  - Weber, Ingo 
AU  - van der Aalst, Wil M.P. 
AU  - vom Brocke, Jan 
AU  - Cabanillas Macias, Cristina 
AU  - Daniel, Florian 
AU  - Debois, Søren 
AU  - Di Ciccio, Claudio 
AU  - Dumas, Marlon 
AU  - Dustdar, Schahram 
AU  - Gal, Avigdor 
AU  - García-Bañuelos, Luciano 
AU  - Governatori, Guido 
AU  - Hull, Richard 
AU  - La Rosa, Marcello 
AU  - Leopold, Henrik 
AU  - Leymann, Frank 
AU  - Recker, Jan 
AU  - Reichert, Manfred 
AU  - Reijers, Hajo A. 
AU  - Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie 
AU  - Solti, Andreas 
AU  - Rosemann, Michael 
AU  - Schulte, Stefan 
AU  - Singh, Munindar P. 
AU  - Slaats, Tijs 
AU  - Staples, Mark 
AU  - Weber, Barbara 
AU  - Weidlich, Matthias 
AU  - Weske, Mathias 
AU  - Xu, Xiwei 
AU  - Zhu, Liming 
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