Information systems and organizational change

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1981, Pages 24-33

  Keen, Peter G W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

change; implementation; politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84974744330     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/358527.358543     Document Type: Article

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