Coping with contradictions in business process re-engineering

Information Technology & People

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 40-57

  Boudreau, Marie Claude ^a   Robey, Daniel ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BPR; Organizational learning; Organizational politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003035239     PISSN: 09593845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09593849610153421     Document Type: Article

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