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When participants perceived that the value conflicts were accommodated in a balanced and legitimate way, they chose to use information resources within the enterprise system. When the conflicts were perceived as too great, participants chose to ignore the enterprise system, or develop their own competing information resources.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>This paper reports on theory building from one intensive case study. It implies, however, that previous attempts to account for the difficulty of enterprise resource planning (ERP) use have not focused enough on the social relationships between the functional areas that are tightly integrated through enterprise systems.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>The three value conflict questions (work priorities, dependency on commitments, and evaluation fairness) can be used to identify potential ERP problem areas, and to clarify the costs and benefits of different ERP choices for various functional areas.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>For information systems researchers and practitioners, this paper offers another means for identifying value conflicts and social choices in computerization, hopefully bringing us closer to Rob Kling's dream that computerization choices be made in a more socially benign way.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/09593840510584612","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2005,3,28]],"date-time":"2005-03-28T17:51:06Z","timestamp":1112032266000},"page":"33-49","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":29,"title":["Value conflicts in enterprise systems"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Jonathan P.","family":"Allen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2022031320084415600_b1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Akkermans, H. and van Helden (2002), \u201cVicious and virtuous cycles in ERP implementation. 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