Process flowcharts: Malleable visual mediators of ERP implementation

Imagining Organizations: Performative Imagery in Business and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 99-125

  Locke, Joanne ^a   Lowe, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW   (United Kingdom)

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