Business Process Change and Organizational Performance: Exploring an Antecedent Model

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 119-154

  Guha, Subo ^a   Grover, Varun ^d   Kettinger, William J ^d   Teng, James T C ^b,c  

^a Intgd Client Server Syst Div N

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Business process change; Business reengineering; Case study; Facilitators and inhibitors; Successful process change

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031288381     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.1997.11518156     Document Type: Article

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