CIM’s member Dr João Porto de Albuquerque had an article selected in the Best Paper Award for 2015 of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, a leading journal in the field of information systems. The article was selected as runner up for 2015 and is entitled "The tension between business process modelling and flexibility: Revealing multiple dimensions with a sociomaterial approach”. The award text (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-journal-of-strategic-information-systems/news/2015-best-paper-award) emphasises that the article makes a significant novel contribution to the field by addressing an under-researched yet a highly critical topic in information systems management. It points to the contradictory effects on flexibility of business process modelling: while recent approaches to modelling are being used to pursue flexibility as a strategic goal, the outcome might actually lead to a reduction in organizational flexibility. The case study research on which the article is based adopts a sociomaterial approach based on Actor-Network Theory ''to develop a multidimensional understanding of flexibility as a relational effect of sociomaterial networks." Taking place in a large aircraft maintenance corporation, the study highlights the influence of process modeling on organizational flexibility.

The article can be read in open access at: <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963868715000384>.