Reflections on issues of power in packaged software selection

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 215-235

  Howcroft, Debra ^a   Light, Ben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Customer relationship management; IT consultants; IT vendors; Packaged software; Power; Software selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744794366     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: 13652575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.2006.00216.x     Document Type: Article

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