Tricks or trompe l'oeil? an examination workplace resistance in an information rich managerial environment.

Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Sobreperez, Polly ^a   Ferneley, Elaine H ^a   Wilson, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Resistance; Surveillance; Workaround; Workflow

Indexed keywords

DATA INTEGRITY; GROUNDED THEORY; MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES; MANAGEMENT DECISIONS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION; NO WINDOW; WORK-FLOW SYSTEMS; WORKAROUND; WORKFLOW;

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SPACE SURVEILLANCE;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84870979460     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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