The violent rhetoric of re-engineering: Management consultancy on the offensive

被引：50

作者：

Grint, K ^{[1
]}

Case, P

机构：

[1] Templeton Coll, Oxford OX1 5NY, England

[2] Oxford Brookes Univ, Oxford OX3 0BP, England

来源：

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES | 1998年 / 35卷 / 05期

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D O I：

10.1111/1467-6486.00109

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Business process re-engineering (BPR) was a leading form of organizational restructuring from the late 1980s until the late 1990s. This paper seeks to contextualize its development and account for its particularly bellicose language by reflecting on its historical antecedents in the west and its contemporary competitors in the east. We suggest that one way of reading BPR is as a form of 'inverse colonization' in which US managerial discourse both assimilated and revolted against the growing domination of Japanese thinking and practice. We conclude with some speculative comments on related causes of the rise of violent managerial rhetoric.

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页码：557 / 577

页数：21