A critique of BPR from a holistic perspective

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 332-339

  Cao, Guangming ^a   Clarke, Steve ^a   Lehaney, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business process re engineering; Management; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986120978     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000005732     Document Type: Article

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