A realist evaluation of post-implementation modifications: a context-initiative-mechanism-outcome perspective.
This paper exemplifies a theoretical and methodological evaluation of IT Initiatives. It discusses post-implementation modifications (ERP-PIM) to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems for the purpose of business process optimization (BPO) from a Context-Initiative-Mechanism-Outcome (CIMO) persp...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Critical Realism Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 645 - 670 |
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