Enterprise system implementations: Organizational influence processes for corporate user representatives

16th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Nordheim, Stig ^a   Nielsen, Peter Axel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Corporate user representatives; Enterprise systems; Implementation; Organizational influence processes

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS REQUIREMENT; COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY; CORPORATE USERS; DATA COLLECTION; ECM SYSTEM; ENTERPRISE SYSTEM; ENTERPRISE SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION; IMPLEMENTATION; INTERPRETIVE STUDY; OIL INDUSTRIES; ORGANIZATIONAL INFLUENCE PROCESSES; PROJECT GROUPS; REFERENCE GROUP; STEERING COMMITTEE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INNOVATION;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84870647705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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