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On paradoxes between human resources management, postmodernism, and HR information systems 论人力资源管理、后现代主义与人力资源信息系统之间的悖论

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1998-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8022(98)00014-9

Gert Van der Linden , Pamela Parker

引用次数: 11

Internet technology in support of the concept of “communities-of-practice”: the case of Xerox 支持“实践社区”概念的互联网技术:以施乐为例

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1998-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8022(98)00011-3

John Seely Brown

引用次数: 96

Simulation modeling and analysis of complex learning processes in organizations 组织中复杂学习过程的仿真建模与分析

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1998-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8022(98)00013-7

Samuel G. Stäbler, Jörn W. Ewaldt

引用次数: 6

Managing complexity in large data bases using self-organizing maps 使用自组织映射管理大型数据库中的复杂性

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1998-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8022(98)00009-5

Barbro Back , Kaisa Sere , Hannu Vanharanta

引用次数: 82

Implementing GIS technology in India: some issues of time and space 在印度实施GIS技术:一些时间和空间问题

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1998-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8022(98)00002-2

Sundeep Sahay

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引用次数: 81

The politics of IT-enabled restructuring and the restructuring of politics through total quality management it支持的政治重组和通过全面质量管理的政治重组

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1998-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8022(98)00001-0

Darren McCabe , David Knights , Adrian Wilkinson

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引用次数: 6

Regarding screens for surveillance of the system1 关于监控系统的屏幕1

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1998-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8022(97)00012-X

Simon Lilley

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引用次数: 12

Groupware, social action and organizational emergence: on the process dynamics of computer mediated distributed work 群件、社会行动与组织涌现:计算机中介的分布式工作过程动力学研究

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1998-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8022(98)00003-4

Ojelanki K Ngwenyama

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引用次数: 94

A logical model of transfer of obligations in trade contracts 贸易合同中义务转移的逻辑模型

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1998-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8022(98)00007-1

Yao-Hua Tan, Walter Thoen

引用次数: 18

Re-initialization in discontinuous systems 不连续系统中的重新初始化

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1998-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-0807-8_39

J. Schumacher

引用次数: 1