Revisiting BPR: A holistic review of practice and development

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 10-42

  Al Mashari, Majed ^a   Zairi, Mohamed ^a  

^a BRADFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; BPR; Information technology; Organizational change; TQM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986031635     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150010283045     Document Type: Review

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