Productivity and performance effects of business process reengineering: A firm-level analysis

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 129-162

  Altinkemer, Kemal ^a   Ozcelik, Yasin ^b   Ozdemir, Zafer ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

business process reengineering; business value of information technology; panel regression; productivity

Indexed keywords

PRODUCTIVITY;

BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING; BUSINESS VALUE; FIRM-LEVEL ANALYSIS; PANEL REGRESSION; PERFORMANCE EFFECT; PRODUCTIVITY MEASURE; PROJECT INITIATIONS; SUBSTANTIAL INVESTMENTS;

REENGINEERING;

EID: 79955627083     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222270405     Document Type: Article

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