The politics of IT-enabled restructuring and the restructuring of politics through total quality management

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies

Volumn 8, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 107-126

  McCabe, Darren ^a   Knights, David ^b   Wilkinson, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case study; Financial services; Innovation; Politics; Restructuring; Total quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009934265     PISSN: 09598022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8022(98)00001-0     Document Type: Article

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