What does organizational change mean? Speculations on a taken for granted category

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 403-435

  Quattrone, Paolo ^a   Hopper, Trevor ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A centred organization; Constructivism; Drift; ERP; Multinationals; Order; Organizational change; SAP; Sociology of translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035648776     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mare.2001.0176     Document Type: Article

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