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Teams and their Motivation for Business Process Reengineering: A Research Note

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When business process reengineering (BPR) is undertaken, one of the requirements leading to its development and implementation is that of teams. There have not been many publications about the teams that are formed for undertaking BPR. This article addresses the theoretical issues surrounding such teams and attempts to provide an understanding of the role of motivation in such teams. Furthermore, an overview of the research process that is undertaken within the article is presented.

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    Jyoti Choudrie, Vlatka Hlupic & Zahir Irani

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Choudrie, J., Hlupic, V. & Irani, Z. Teams and their Motivation for Business Process Reengineering: A Research Note. International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems 14, 99–107 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013824331143

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