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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.

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