Realigning Top Management's Strategic Change Actions for ERP Implementation: How Specializing on Just Cultural and Environmental Contextual Factors Could Improve Success

Journal of Change Management

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 121-142

  Martin, Thomas N ^a   Huq, Ziaul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

employee behavioural change; ERP implementation; failure; task realignment; task specialization; top management

Indexed keywords

EID: 57149131349     PISSN: 14697017     EISSN: 14791811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14697010701531749     Document Type: Article

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