Social construction of information technology supporting work

Journal of Cases on Information Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-17

  Ramos, Isabel ^a   Berry, Daniel M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business applications; Case study; Communications gap; Enterprise IS; Enterprise resource planning; IS impacts; IS problems; IS success; Management information needs; Organizational culture; Social impacts; Social issues of IT; Top management; User attitudes

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PRODUCTION; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

BUSINESS APPLICATIONS; CASE STUDY; COMMUNICATION GAP; IS IMPACTS; IS PROBLEMS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION NEEDS; SOCIAL IMPACTS; TOP MANAGEMENT; USER EXPECTATIONS; USER SATISFACTION;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 20444409744     PISSN: 15487717     EISSN: 15487725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jcit.2005070101     Document Type: Article

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