The influence of organizational factors on successful ERP implementation

Management Decision

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 911-926

  Dezdar, Shahin ^a   Ainin, Sulaiman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Education; Enterprise resource planning; Enterprise wide communication; Iran; Top management support; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959623744     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741111143603     Document Type: Article

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