Description

Information systems is a discipline nestled between the organizational sciences and the computer sciences. How do these different fields view each other? We ask Brian Pentland (an organizational sociologist) and Wil van der Aalst (a computer scientist). Both work on the same topic – processes and routines – but within different communities. We explore whether these communities are coming together and what advice young researchers receive in the different fields.

Episode Reading List

• Pentland, B. T. (2003). Sequential Variety in Work Processes. Organization Science, 14(5), 528-540.
• Feldman, M. S., & Pentland, B. T. (2003). Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change. Administrative Science Quarterly, 48(1), 94-118.
• Feldman, M. S., Pentland, B. T., D’Adderio, L., & Lazaric, N. (2016). Beyond Routines as Things: Introduction to the Special Issue on Routine Dynamics. Organization Science, 27(3), 505-513.
• Kim, I., Pentland, B. T., Ryan Wolf, J., Xie, Y., Frank, K., & Pentland, A. (2019). Effect of Attribute Alignment on Action Sequence Variability: Evidence from Electronic Medical Records. In T. Hildebrandt, B. F. van Dongen, M. Röglinger, & J. Mendling (Eds.), Business Process Management Forum: BPM Forum 2019 (pp. 183-194). Springer.
• van der Aalst, W. M. P. (1998). The Application of Petri Nets to Workflow Management. The Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, 8(1), 21-66.
• van der Aalst, W. M. P., & ter Hofstede, A. H. M. (2005). YAWL: Yet Another Workflow Language. Information Systems, 30(4), 245-275.
• van Dongen, B. F., Alves de Medeiros, A. K., Verbeek, H. M. V., Weijters, A. J. M. M., & van der Aalst, W. M. P. (2005). The ProM Framework: A New Era in Process Mining Tool Support. In G. Ciardo & P. Darondeau (Eds.), Applications and Theory of Petri Nets 2005 (Vol. 3536, pp. 444-454). Springer.
• van der Aalst, W. M. P. (2016). Process Mining: Data Science in Action. Springer.