Employees' exploration of complex systems: An integrative view

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 322-357

  Liang, Huigang ^a   Peng, Zeyu ^b   Xue, Yajiong ^a   Guo, Xitong ^c   Wang, Nengmin ^d  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Autonomy; ERP; Innovation climate; IS jobs; System exploration; Task complexity; Task variety

Indexed keywords

PERSONNEL TRAINING;

ADAPTIVE STRUCTURATION THEORY; AUTONOMY; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING (ERP); ENVIRONMENT FACTORS; ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE; TASK CHARACTERISTICS; TASK COMPLEXITY; TASK VARIETY;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84943409113     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: 1557928X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2015.1029402     Document Type: Article

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