ERP critical success factors: An exploration of the contextual factors in public sector institutions

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 3062-3071

  Allen, D ^a   Kern, T ^b   Havenhand, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Unisys   (United States)

Author keywords

Business communication; Business process re engineering; Continuing education; Cultural differences; Enterprise resource planning; Global communication; Government; Information systems; Information technology; Management training

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; REENGINEERING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS; BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; GLOBAL COMMUNICATION; GOVERNMENT; MANAGEMENT TRAINING;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 33744775495     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2002.994295     Document Type: Conference Paper

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