Understanding misalignment and cascading change of ERP implementation: A stage view of process analysis

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 324-334

  Wei, Hsiao Lan ^a   Wang, Eric T G ^a   Ju, Pei Hung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cascading effect; Enterprise resource planning system; Misalignment; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 28244439910     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000547     Document Type: Article

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