Implementing packaged enterprise software in multi-site firms: intensification of organizing and learning

ion and generalizationRelationship between particulars of a specific study to abstract categories, theories, ideas, concepts (differentiates from anecdotes)Relate data to abstract theoretical assumptionsCase study findings are analyzed and related to literature 5. The principle of dialogical reasoningConfrontation of researcher’s prejudices (ex ante lens) with emerging dataMake historical philosophical assumptions guiding the research explicitResearchers’ assumptions are based on the following literatures: packaged software, ERP, technology adaptation, organizational learning Researchers’ social background is European; they have been trained as management scholars in Europe