Abstract
The current study aimed to investigate the contextual factors in formation and maintenance of process-oriented organization and the effect of the identified factors on strategy development of the organization. A questionnaire was designed to measure the research variables in which its validity and reliability was confirmed by factor analysis. The instrument was distributed among 183 managers, officials and the experts of systems, information technology and strategic planning divisions of major corporations in Iran Khodro industrial group. The method was descriptive-correlation and a path analysis was used to test the hypotheses. The results revealed that reengineering of business process has a significant impact on designing business and management of business processes have a strong effect maintenance of process oriented organization and as a result, management of business processes lead to the formation of planning school in process oriented organization.