Planning for the Market? Enterprise Resource Planning Systems and the Contradictions of Capital

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 21-33

  Robinson, Bruce ^a   Wilson, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circuit of capital; Enterprise Resource Planning; Marxist economics; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044261631     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/506139.506143     Document Type: Article

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