Overcoming knowledge management challenges during ERP implementation: The need to integrate and share different types of knowledge

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 404-419

  Pan, Shan L ^a   Newell, Sue ^b   Huang, Jimmy ^c   Galliers, Robert D ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL CAPITAL;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33847694018     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20523     Document Type: Article

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