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  title info:
    title: ERP Systems and Organisational Change
    sub title: A Socio-technical Insight
  name:
    name part: Grabot, Bernard.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Mayère, Anne.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Bazet, Isabelle.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 214 p. online resource.
  abstract: ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems are now the backbone of the information systems in public and private sector organisations. Yet, even if their ability to address the fragmentation of former information systems, provide functional integration and support best practices is recognised, difficulties remain. These difficulties, arising during and after their introduction in organisations, have been widely discussed, leading to many articles and books explaining reasons of failure, listing conditions of success, and suggesting project management methods that are supposed to allow their harmonious implementation. ERP systems are clearly software systems which are supposed to support organisational and individual work. Thus, ERP Systems and Organisational Change considers both the social and technical perspectives on this phenomenon. It is necessary to analyse not only the influence of the software on the organisation but also how the different uses made of these systems result in an unpredictable mutual adjustment between those in the organisation and the tool. The book illustrates various aspects of this mutual adjustment, with contributions by engineers, computer scientists, consultants, sociologists and economists which, together, provide a unique and comprehensive view of the problem. Without trying to build an artificial consensus, several case studies are commented upon alternatively with a technical and social view, showing how the same facts can have different interpretations and thus contribute to a better understanding of the phenomenon in question. ERP Systems and Organisational Change is a must-read text for students and researchers in management, engineering science and sociology, as well as for technical and human resource managers and consultants in charge of implementation projects.
  table of contents: The Mutual Influence of the Tool and the Organisation -- ERP Systems in the Extended Value Chain of the Food Industry -- Integrative Technologies in the Workplace: Using Distributed Cognition to Frame the Challenges Associated with their Implementation -- ERP Implementation: the Question of Global Control Versus Local Efficiency -- Why ERPs Disappoint: the Importance of Getting the Organisational Text Right -- Contradictions and the Appropriation of ERP Packages -- Exploring Functional Legitimacy Within Organisations: Lessons to be Learnt from Suchman’s Typology. The Case of the Purchasing Function and SAP Implementation -- How to Take into Account the Intuitive Behaviour of the Organisations in the ERP? -- Process Alignment or ERP Customisation: Is There a Unique Answer? -- Process Alignment Maturity in Changing Organisations -- A Cross-cultural Analysis of ERP Implementation by US and Greek Companies.
  note: edited by Bernard Grabot, Anne Mayère, Isabelle Bazet.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Organization
  subject:
    topic: Planning
  subject:
    topic: User interfaces (Computer systems)
  subject:
    topic: Engineering economics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering economy
  subject:
    topic: Industrial organization
  subject:
    topic: Industrial psychology
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing
  subject:
    topic: Organization
  subject:
    topic: Industrial Organization
  subject:
    topic: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
  subject:
    topic: Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology
  classification: TA177.4-185
  classification: 658.5
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing
  identifier: 9781848001831
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-183-1
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204170834.0
    record identifier: 978-1-84800-183-1