X-engineering: Ex cathedra?

Personnel Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Collins, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business process re engineering; Management gurus

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542267848     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480410510651     Document Type: Review

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