Effects of internal support and consultant quality on the consulting process and ERP system quality

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1029-1041

  Wang, Eric T G ^a   Chen, Jessica H F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Communication; Conflict resolution; Consultant quality; Enterprise resource planning

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT RESOLUTION; CONSULTANT QUALITY; CONSULTANTS; SYSTEM QUALITY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 33749577586     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2005.08.005     Document Type: Article

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