Corporate user representatives and the dialectics of enterprise systems: A quest for social actors with political skill

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Nordheim, Stig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; PETROLEUM REFINERIES;

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; OIL INDUSTRIES; SYSTEM SCIENCES;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 51549118265     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.105     Document Type: Conference Paper

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