Business Process Reengineering (BPR) Versus Outsourcing - Critical Perspectives

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 225-233

  Dobson, Philip J ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business process reengineering; Critical realism; Critical theory; Emancipation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037838863     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023863906650     Document Type: Article

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