The impact of enterprise systems on organizational control and drift: A human-machine agency perspective

International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 36-51

  Ignatiadis, Ioannis ^a   Nandhakumar, Joe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; Drift; Enterprise IS; IS control issues; IS impacts; IS use

Indexed keywords

MANAGERS;

AGENCY; DRIFT; ENTERPRISE IS; IS CONTROL ISSUES; IS IMPACTS;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 49249132252     PISSN: 15481115     EISSN: 15481123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jeis.2007070103     Document Type: Article

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