Understanding Business Process Evolution in Digital Ventures

Tobias Wuttke (), Thomas Haskamp (), Michael Perscheid () and Falk Uebernickel ()
Additional contact information
Tobias Wuttke: University of Potsdam
Thomas Haskamp: University of Münster
Michael Perscheid: University of Potsdam
Falk Uebernickel: University of Potsdam

A chapter in Transforming the Digitally Sustainable Enterprise, 2025, pp 33-41 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Business processes are at each company’s core and must be adapted permanently to react to changing markets, substantial growth, or legal regulations. Especially digital ventures have the potential to evolve fast, and consequently, their business processes need to change at the same speed. Two streams of literature have looked into this. Traditional business process management sees business processes, once implemented, as relatively stable. In contrast, digital entrepreneurship literature highlights the inherent flexibility of digital ventures. Based on a multiple case study of five digital ventures, we analyze how entrepreneurs deal with this tension when business processes evolve. Building on entrepreneurial bricolage, we propose two types of resource recombination that we find, namely, usage of existing private resources and re-configuring of resources already being used within the venture. These insights contribute to extending our understanding of the evolution of business processes.

Keywords: Digital ventures; Digital entrepreneurship; Business process management; Business process evolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:lnichp:978-3-031-80125-9_3

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783031801259

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-80125-9_3

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organization from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().