{"title":"Business Process Re-engineering in Scotland: Survey and Comparison","authors":"S. Sockalingam, A. Doswell","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1099-0828(199612)3:4<33::AID-BCR76>3.0.CO;2-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper reports on empirical investigation into the practice of business process re-engineering (BPR) in Scotland and compares this practice with that reported from other surveys of Western nations. If the world, especially the information worl d is globalizing, national differences might be expected to be disappearing. However the results suggest that organizations in Scotland, although on a par with the rest of UK, are lagging behind Continental Europe and the US considerably. Analysis was als o carried out by sector which confirmed previous findings of sectorial bias, and by rank, which corroborated a bias in terms of organization size. The conclusions are that companies which report doing BPR are generally satisfied with their success. BPR is a relatively new phenomenon in Scotland. Nevertheless, the patterns of emerging practice characterize those of more mature re-engineering nations.</p>","PeriodicalId":100208,"journal":{"name":"Business Change and Re-engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"13","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Business Change and Re-engineering","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/%28SICI%291099-0828%28199612%293%3A4%3C33%3A%3AAID-BCR76%3E3.0.CO%3B2-2","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper reports on empirical investigation into the practice of business process re-engineering (BPR) in Scotland and compares this practice with that reported from other surveys of Western nations. If the world, especially the information worl d is globalizing, national differences might be expected to be disappearing. However the results suggest that organizations in Scotland, although on a par with the rest of UK, are lagging behind Continental Europe and the US considerably. Analysis was als o carried out by sector which confirmed previous findings of sectorial bias, and by rank, which corroborated a bias in terms of organization size. The conclusions are that companies which report doing BPR are generally satisfied with their success. BPR is a relatively new phenomenon in Scotland. Nevertheless, the patterns of emerging practice characterize those of more mature re-engineering nations.