Development of measures to assess the ERP adoption of small and medium enterprises

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 22, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 99-118

  Shiau, Wen Lung ^a   Hsu, Ping Yu ^b   Wang, Jun Zhong ^b  

^a MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Information systems; Manufacturing resource planning; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 67249127388     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410390910922859     Document Type: Article

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