Integration in ERP environments: Rhetoric, realities and organisational possibilities

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 215-228

  Light, Ben ^a   Wagner, Erica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b and Design   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; PLANNING SYSTEM; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 33750339261     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: 1468005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-005X.2006.00176.x     Document Type: Article

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