Going beyond 'misfit' as a reason for ERP package customisation

Computers in Industry

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 606-619

  Light, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Customisation; Enterprise resource planning; Packaged software

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REENGINEERING;

CUSTOMIZATION; FUNCTIONALITY; PACKAGED SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 23844533656     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2005.02.008     Document Type: Article

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