Enterprise transformation: Why are we interested, what is it, and what are the challenges?

Journal of Enterprise Transformation

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 14-33

  Purchase, Valerie ^a   Parry, Glenn ^b   Valerdi, Ricardo ^c   Nightingale, Deborah ^d   Mills, John ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84971377814     PISSN: 19488289     EISSN: 19488297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19488289.2010.549289     Document Type: Article

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