Technological embeddedness and organizational change

Organization Science

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 832-848

  Volkoff, Olga ^a   Strong, Diane M ^b   Elmes, Michael B ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Critical realism; Embeddedness; Enterprise systems; Grounded theory; Organizational change; Structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349113447     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1070.0288     Document Type: Article

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