  In the era of joint ventures (JV) and mergers & acquisitions (M&A), dynamic
and large business processes can emerge to achieve broader business goals and
are often formed from business processes of distinct organizations. Software
systems of such distinct organizations should support these larger processes
and, for this, they need to communicate among them forming the so called
Systems-of-Systems (SoS). However, the management of these larger processes and
the correspondent SoS has been currently a complicated challenge for the
alliances of organizations. In this scenario, the main contribution of this
paper is to discover what has been proposed in the literature to manage these
processes. We analyzed possibly all existing approaches and the findings point
out that many of them cannot provide understanding of the whole large processes
and, more importantly, they do not address completely the SoS inherent
characteristics. We also highlight the next research directions to make
possible the management of these dynamic, complex, interconnected business
processes that have increasingly crossed several critical domains.
