The core critical success factors in Implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning systems

International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 82-111

  Hanafzadeh, Payam ^a   Gholami, Roya ^b   Dadbin, Shabnam ^a   Standage, Nicholas ^b,c,d  

^a ALLAMEH TABATABA'I UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core critical success factors; Enterprise Resource Planning; Entropy method; Multinational companies; Project managers

Indexed keywords

CORE CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS; CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR; ENTROPY METHODS; MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES; PROJECT MANAGERS;

ENTROPY; INVESTMENTS; MANAGERS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 77954096409     PISSN: 15481115     EISSN: 15481123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jeis.2010040105     Document Type: Article

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