Institutions and technology: Frameworks for understanding organizational change - The case of a major ICT outsourcing contract

Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 110-126

  Bridgman, Todd ^a,b,c   Willmott, Hugh ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ESRC ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Discourse theory; ICTs; Institutional theory; Organizational change; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744551379     PISSN: 00218863     EISSN: 15526879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021886305284990     Document Type: Article

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