Evaluating ERP projects using DEA and regression analysis

International Journal of Business Information Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 140-157

  Parthasarathy, S ^a   Anbazhagan, N ^b  

^a THIAGARAJAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^b ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis; DEA; Enterprise Resource Planning projects; FP; Function Points; Lines of Code; LOC; Regression analysis; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149096232     PISSN: 17460972     EISSN: 17460980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2008.016583     Document Type: Article

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