ICT deployment and resource-based power in multinational enterprise futures

Futures

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 952-959

  Yamin, Mo ^a   Sinkovics, Rudolf R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embeddedness; Enterprise resource planning (ERP); Legitimacy; Power; Resource dependency; Visibility

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; NETWORK ANALYSIS; POWER RELATIONS;

EID: 77958154088     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2010.08.027     Document Type: Article

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