Business process orientated holonic (PrOH) modeling

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 410-432

  Clegg, Ben ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business process re engineering; Modelling; Operations management; Systems theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746124227     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150610678050     Document Type: Article

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