Reengineering the Systems Development Process: The Link between Autonomous Teams and Business Process Outcomes

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-68

  Janz, Brian D ^a,b   Wetherbe, James C ^a,b   Davis, Gordon B ^b,c   Noe, Raymond A ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business process change; Business reengineering; Cooperative learning; Employee autonomy; Process improvement; Self direction; Systems development; Team development; Teams; Teamwork

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031288395     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.1997.11518153     Document Type: Article

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