Multiple faces of codification: Organizational redesign in an IT organization

Organization Science

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 190-201

  Vaast, Emmanuelle ^a   Levina, Natalia ^b  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Codification; Ethnography; Information technology; Organizational change; Outsourcing; Qualitative methods; Redesign

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645562571     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1050.0171     Document Type: Article

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