The process of enterprise resource planning implementation and business process re-engineering: Tales from two Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 405-426

  Newman, Mike ^a,b   Zhao, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

BPR; ERP implementation; Failure; Information systems; ISD; Success

Indexed keywords

EID: 47749105639     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: 13652575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.2008.00305.x     Document Type: Article

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