Understanding project survival in an ES environment: A sociomaterial practice perspective

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 276-297

  Wagner, Erica L ^a   Newell, Sue ^b,c   Piccoli, Gabriele ^d  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d GRENOBLE ECOLE DE MANAGEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Best practice; Case study; Enterprise systems; ERP; Implementation; Negotiation; Practice; Project survival; Sociomateriality

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE; INFORMATION USE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

BEST PRACTICES; CASE-STUDIES; ENTERPRISE SYSTEM; IMPLEMENTATION; NEGOTIATION; PRACTICE; PRACTICE PERSPECTIVES; PROJECT SURVIVAL; SOCIO MATERIALITIES; SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955114253     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00227     Document Type: Article

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