An investigation of the relationships between organizational factors, business process improvement, and ERP success

Benchmarking

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 387-406

  Law, Chuck C H ^a   Ngai, Eric W T ^b  

^a CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Business improvement; Business process re engineering; Hong Kong; Manufacturing resource planning; Senior managers

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249704468     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770710753158     Document Type: Article

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