Business process management as an important factor for a successful erp system implementation

Ekonomska Istrazivanja

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1-18

  Žabjek, Damijan ^a   Kovacic, Andrej ^a   Štemberger, Mojca Indihar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Business process management; Business process reengineering; Critical success factors; Enterprise resource planning; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; CORPORATE STRATEGY; EQUATION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MODELING; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION;

EID: 70149110659     PISSN: 1331677X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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