...Rob Valentine; David Knights Business process re‐engineering (BPR) has been widely promoted as a technique for organisational survival in an increasingly competitive environment. The initial message and language of BPR was radical, calling for the obliteration of traditional methods of processing...

...Nathalie N. Mitev Critically reviews and compares the concepts of business process re‐engineering (BPR), which has recently addressed the issue of changing organizations through the use of information technology (IT) and socio‐technical design (STD), which has traditionally been concerned...

...Christopher Grey; Nathalie Mitev Addresses the latest vogue in managerial theory – business process re‐engineering (BPR). Locates BPR within other recent challenges to traditional modes of organizing work, and subjects it to some critical scrutiny in order to provide some markers for further work...

...Hugh Willmott Reviews the business process re‐engineering (BPR) vision of radical business process change, focusing on the use of information technology to facilitate a shift away from linear/sequential work organization towards parallel processing and multidisciplinary teamworking. Highlights BPR...