FIVE ROLES OF AN INFORMATION SYSTEM: A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONIST APPROACH TO ANALYZING THE USE OF ERP SYSTEMS

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 426-434

  Askenäs, Linda ^a   Westelius, Alf ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; INFORMATION USE;

CASE-STUDIES; COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCES PLANNING; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONIST APPROACHES; STRUCTURATION; WAYS OF THINKING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 85138687367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.28945/527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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