Rules of the game: Constructing norms of influence, subordination and constraint in IT planning

Information and Organization

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 39-70

  Tillquist, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Business systems planning; IS planning; Normative systems; Norms; Organizational change; Planning issues; Project control; Social rule systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 10644253611     PISSN: 14717727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-7727(01)00014-8     Document Type: Article

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