Success criteria for systems led transformation: Managerial implications for global operations management

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 887-908

  Ojiako, Udechukwu ^a   Maguire, Stuart ^b  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information systems; Operations management; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDIES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT; ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE;

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

EID: 51749110678     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635570810897982     Document Type: Article

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