Negotiating "best practices" in package software implementation

Information and Organization

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-28

  Yeow, Adrian ^a,b   Sia, Siew Kien ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Best practices; Discursive strategy; IT implementation; Power and politic; Technological frame

Indexed keywords

EID: 37349007392     PISSN: 14717727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoandorg.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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