Erp competence-building mechanisms: An exploratory investigation of configurations of erp adopters in the european and u.s. manufacturing sectors

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 274-298

  Masini, Andrea ^a   Van Wassenhove, Luk N ^b  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Empirical research; Enterprise resource planning (ERP); Information and communication technology; Operations strategy

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; MANUFACTURING COMPANIES; MANUFACTURING SECTOR; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; OPERATIONS STRATEGY; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; RIGID STRUCTURE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; REENGINEERING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 67650001497     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1080.0215     Document Type: Article

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