TY - JOUR
T1 - The false promise of technological determinism
T2 - the case of enterprise resource planning systems
AU - Grant, David
AU - Hall, Richard
AU - Wailes, Nick
AU - Wright, Christopher
PY - 2006/3
Y1 - 2006/3
N2 - According to software vendors and consultants, Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs) transform the nature, structure and management of work regardless of organisational context. This paper contests this technologically deterministic view of organisational change by demonstrating the role that discourse plays in the social construction of ERPs.
AB - According to software vendors and consultants, Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs) transform the nature, structure and management of work regardless of organisational context. This paper contests this technologically deterministic view of organisational change by demonstrating the role that discourse plays in the social construction of ERPs.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33644755522&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1468-005X.2006.00159.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1468-005X.2006.00159.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33644755522
SN - 0268-1072
VL - 21
SP - 2
EP - 15
JO - New Technology, Work and Employment
JF - New Technology, Work and Employment
IS - 1
ER -