First organise, then automate: a modern socio‐technical view on ERP systems and teamworking
New Technology Work and EmploymentPublished 24 October 2006Open access
Jos Benders, Paul Hoeken, Ronald Batenburg, Roel Schouteten
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Abstract
Previous empirical work demonstrated that self‐managing teamwork and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are difficult to combine in practice, and have called for the development of templates for configuring ERP systems to support teamworking. This requires a view on organisation design, dealing with both in an integrated fashion. ‘Modern Socio‐technology’ provides such a view. We discuss its underlying principles and show how it relates to ERP.
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