Improving shared service implementation: Adopting lessons from the BPR movement

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 191-205

  Ulbrich, Frank ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Business process re engineering; Organizational change; Organizational processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645511448     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150610657530     Document Type: Article

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