User resistance strategies and the problems of blanket prescriptions: A case study of resistance successes

Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Griffiths, Marie ^a   Light, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Organisational change; Strategic management of systems development; User participation; User resistance

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HETEROGENEOUS USERS; ON-RESISTANCE; ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE; QUALITATIVE STUDY; SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; USER PARTICIPATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84870645296     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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