Managing user acceptance towards enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems - Understanding the dissonance between user expectations and managerial policies

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 135-139

  Lim, Eric T K ^a   Pan, Shan Ling ^a   Tan, Chee Wee ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

ERP systems; Expectancy; Expectancy theory; Instrumentality; Valence

Indexed keywords

EID: 23444458896     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000531     Document Type: Review

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