Reengineering Effectiveness and the Redesign of Organizational Control: A Case Study of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-92

  Sia, Siew Kien ^a,b   Neo, Boon Siong ^c,d,e  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Div of Strategy and Info Systems

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Business process reengineering; Organizational control; Risk management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031288377     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.1997.11518154     Document Type: Article

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