A This paper investigates the development and implementation of a generic off-the-shelf computer package and the competing pressures for standardization and differentiation as this package is made to fit new organizational settings. The particular focus is on an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and its application within universities. In order for the ERP system to fit this sett...

Standard ML has a module system that allows one to deene para-metric modules, called functors. Functors are \\rst-order," meaning that func-tors themselves cannot be passed as parameters or returned as results of functor applications. This paper presents a semantics for a higher-order module system which generalizes the module system of Standard ML. The higher-order functors described here are ...

This paper investigates the development and implementation of a generic off-the-shelf computer package and the competing pressures for standardisation and differentiation as this package is made to fit new organisational settings. The particular focus is on an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and its application within universities. In order for the ERP system to fit this setting a new...