The Reengineering Revolution : Critical Studies of Corporate Change.
Title:
The Reengineering Revolution : Critical Studies of Corporate Change.
Author:
Knights, David.
ISBN:
9781446265895
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (205 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 - The Reengineering Revolution? An Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Now Where Were We?' BPR Lotus-eaters and Corporate Amnesia -- Chapter 3 - Dedicated Followers of Fashion: BPR and the Public Sector -- Chapter 4 - 'Such stuff as dreams are made on': BPR Up Against the Wall of Functionalism, Hierarchy and Specialization -- Chapter 5 - Reengineering the Food Chains: A Systems Perspective on UK Supermarkets and BPR -- Chapter 6 - Business Process Reengineering and The New Organization' -- Chapter 7 - What About the Workers?: BPR, Trade Unions and the Emiseration of Labour -- Chapter 8 - BPR and TQM: Divergence or Convergence? -- Chapter 9 - Management as Magic: Reengineering and the Search for Business Salvation -- Index.
Abstract:
The Reengineering Revolution reviews the significance of the Business Process Reengineering trend for management practice since the early 1990's. Combining empirical and theoretical perspectives, David Knights and Hugh Willmott show how both term and practice shaped the recent widely adopted policies of `downsizing', restructuring and emphasis on `process' rather than task. Well-known contributors analyze the impact of Business Process Reengineering in a number of settings: supermarkets and the food chain; the public sector; banks. The theoretical history of Business Process Reengineering is also detailed in relation to ideas about bureaucracy, hierarchy, transformation.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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