Business process re-engineering in practice-an example of a medium-sized Slovenian company in difficulties

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 89-117

  Ursic, Dusko ^a   Anteric, Sandra ^b   Mulej, Matjaz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b Nova Ljubljanska Banka   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Business practice; Business process re engineering; Management; Slovenia; Systemic thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444414613     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11213-005-2461-9     Document Type: Article

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