Assessment of the implementation of business process e-engineering in the public sector in Ethiopia: the cases of the Ministry of Trade and Industry and The Ministry of Works and Urban Development
| dc.contributor.author | Hussein, Ibrahim Mamma | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-08-12T10:22:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-08-12T10:22:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The modem public sector and system of administration in Ethiopia began at the time of the imperial period, in the early 1960s. But this sector and the tradition of administration itself, compared with other countries, is not yet strong enough to play its role as a catalyst in the development and growth of the country. This study explores the wide array of public sector administration and reform practices in other countries and compares them with Ethiopia. More specifically, it looks into Business Process Re-engineering, a recently adopted type of reform, which originated in the private sector. Commonly termed BPR, Business Process Re-Engineering is a reform mechanism to uproot age-old systems of thinking and functioning in any organization and replace them with new paradigms and more efficient and lean systems that will lead to visible results. The literature reveals that it has had mixed results of improvement, both in the private sector and in the public sector in many countries. This study sets out to analyse whether this is just another fad of reform being adopted in order to fulfil a completely different objective of political reform, or whether it is a real effort to bring about changes in the way the public sector conducts its business. From its wide application in the country, two varying sectors have been chosen for this analysis. One is a service-giving institution in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, which has frequent interaction with citizens and, most importantly, investors and business organizations. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | N/A | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/20691 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | N/A | |
| dc.subject | Business process re-engineering | |
| dc.subject | European Union | |
| dc.subject | International monetary fund | |
| dc.subject | Millennium development goals | |
| dc.subject | New public management | |
| dc.title | Assessment of the implementation of business process e-engineering in the public sector in Ethiopia: the cases of the Ministry of Trade and Industry and The Ministry of Works and Urban Development | |
| dc.type | Thesis |