Impact of supply chain management and ERP on organizational performance and competitive advantage: Case of tunisian companies

Journal of Global Information Technology Management

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 24-46

  Mzoughi, Nabil ^a   Bahri, Nedra ^a   Ghachem, Mohamed Skander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUSSE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Competitive Advantage; Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP); Organizational Performance; Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955455818     PISSN: 1097198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2008.10856472     Document Type: Article

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