How culture influences IT-enabled organizational change and information systems

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 118-123

  Martinsons, Maris G ^a,b   Davison, Robert M ^a   Martinsons, Valdis ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Pacific Rim Institute for the Studies of Management   (Hong Kong)

^c ITMethods Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PERFORMANCE; BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING; INNOVATIVENESS; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE;

QUALITY ASSURANCE; REENGINEERING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 65949122085     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1498765.1498798     Document Type: Article

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