Institutionalizing enterprise resource planning in the Saudi steel industry: A punctuated socio-technical analysis

Journal of Information Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 286-304

  Lyytinen, Kalle ^a   Newman, Mike ^b,c   Al Muharfi, Abdul Rahman A ^d  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

ERP systems; Institutional theory; Longitudinal case study; Process models; Punctuated equilibrium; Socio technical change

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450231730     PISSN: 02683962     EISSN: 14664437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jit.2009.14     Document Type: Article

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