An assessment of package-organisation misalignment: Institutional and ontological structures

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 568-583

  Sia, Siew Kien ^a   Soh, Christina ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Enterprise systems; Institutional theory; Misalignments; Ontology; Package software

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648989968     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000700     Document Type: Article

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