Dangerous liaisons? Component-based development and organizational subcultures

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 89-99

  Huang, Jimmy C ^a   Newell, Sue ^b,c   Galliers, Robert D ^b,d   Pan, Shan Ling ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Component based development (CBD); Enterprise wide software; Information system (IS) information technology (IT) implementation; Interpretative case study research; Knowledge sharing; Metaphors; Organizational culture and subcultures

Indexed keywords

INVESTMENTS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPONENT-BASED DEVELOPMENT (CBD);

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0037322735     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2002.808297     Document Type: Article

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