Five roles of an information system: A social constructionist approach to analysing the use of ERP systems

Informing Science

Volumn 6, Issue , 2003, Pages 209-220

  Askenäs, Linda ^a,b   Westelius, Alf ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b International Graduate School of Management and Industrial Engineering (IMIE)   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Actor; Case study; ERP systems; Grounded theory; Information systems use; Interpreting information systems; Longitudinal research; Social construction; Structuration theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 18344391665     PISSN: 15214672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.28945/527     Document Type: Article

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