Panoptic empowerment and reflective conformity in enterprise systems-enabled organizations

Information and Organization

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-37

  Elmes, Michael B ^a   Strong, Diane M ^a   Volkoff, Olga ^a  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Discipline; Empowerment; Enterprise systems; ERP systems; Panopticon

Indexed keywords

EID: 12444277321     PISSN: 14717727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoandorg.2004.12.001     Document Type: Article

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