The impact of enterprise systems on organizational resilience

Journal of Information Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 36-43

  Ignatiadis, Ioannis ^a   Nandhakumar, Joe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control; Drift; Enterprise system; Power; Resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847729077     PISSN: 02683962     EISSN: 14664437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jit.2000087     Document Type: Article

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