Institutional bridging: How conceptions of IT-enabled change shape the planning process

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 115-152

  Tillquist, John ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GTE Data Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Business process reengineering; Change methodologies; Interpretivist field study; IT planning; IT enabled organizational changes; Organizational transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034435052     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2000.11045642     Document Type: Article

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