A Manager’s Critical Role as IS Change Agent: A Case of Packaged Software Implementation in China

10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 607-616

  Dologite, Dorothy G ^a   Bai, Qinghua ^b   Mockler, Robert J ^c   Viszhanyo, Peter F ^a  

^a Zicklin School of Business   (United States)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

case study; Change agents; computing in developing countries; IS implementation; packaged software

Indexed keywords

MANAGERS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

AGENT MODELING; AGENT ROLES; CASE-STUDIES; CHANGE AGENTS; COMPUTING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRY; IS IMPLEMENTATION; JOINT VENTURES; PACKAGED SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

EID: 84901511478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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