ERP customization failure: Institutionalized accounting practices, power relations and market forces

Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 250-269

  Alawattage, Chandana ^a   Hopper, Trevor ^a   Wickramasinghe, Danture ^a   Kholeif, Ahmed O R ^b   Abdel Kader, Magdy ^c   Sherer, Michael ^d  

^a University of Alexandria ^*

^b ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting procedures; Egypt; Resource management; Sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992957660     PISSN: 18325912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/18325910710820292     Document Type: Article

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