ERPs as 'technologies-in-practice': Social construction, materiality and the role of organisational factors

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 229-241

  Dery, Kristine ^a   Hall, Richard ^a   Wailes, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; PLANNING SYSTEM; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33750308045     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: 1468005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-005X.2006.00177.x     Document Type: Article

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