Antecedents of knowledge transfer from consultants to clients in enterprise system implementations

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 59-85

  Ko, Dong Gil ^a   Kirsch, Laurie J ^b   King, William R ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION-RELATED FACTORS; CRITICAL ORGANIZATIONAL RESOURCES; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; THEORETICAL MODELS;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33645514045     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25148668     Document Type: Article

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