Pre-implementation attitudes and organizational readiness for implementing an enterprise resource planning system

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 258-273

  Abdinnour Helm, Sue ^a   Lengnick Hall, Mark L ^b   Lengnick Hall, Cynthia A ^b  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Enterprise Resource Planning; Implementation; Organization; Technology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

PRE-IMPLEMENTATION;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 0037448867     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00548-9     Document Type: Article

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