Top management support of enterprise systems implementations

Journal of Information Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-80

  Dong, Linying ^a   Neufeld, Derrick ^b   Higgins, Chris ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case study; Implementation; Information systems; Leadership; Top management

Indexed keywords

EID: 62949231243     PISSN: 02683962     EISSN: 14664437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jit.2008.21     Document Type: Article

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