Information technology and the first-line manager's dilemma: Lessons from an ethnographic study

17th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Vieira Da Cunha, Joao ^a   Carugati, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Control systems; Improvisation; Information system use; Managerial work

Indexed keywords

ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; FORMAL REPRESENTATIONS; IMPROVISATION; MANAGERIAL WORK;

CONTROL SYSTEMS; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT;

MANAGERS;

EID: 84870695779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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