Information Systems implementation failure: Insights from prism

International Journal of Information Management

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 259-269

  Pan, Gary ^a   Hackney, Ray ^b   Pan, Shan L ^c  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

ERP; Failure; IS implementation; Process; Structured case analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

PROJECT ORGANIZATIONS; RECURSIVE INTERACTIONS; STRUCTURED CASE ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 44649183282     PISSN: 02684012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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