The performance impact of business process standardization: HR case study insights

Management Research Review

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 924-939

  Muenstermann, Bjoern ^a   von Stetten, Alexander ^a   Laumer, Sven ^a   Eckhardt, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business development; Human resource management; Information systems; Process management; Recruitment; Standardization

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955898230     PISSN: 20408269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01409171011070332     Document Type: Article

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