Enterprise system's characterisitics in small and medium-sized enterprises context - A case study

Proceedings of the European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, EMCIS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Seethamraju, Ravi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adoption; Enterprise systems; Integration; SMEs

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; BUSINESS OPERATION; ENTERPRISE SYSTEM; INTEGRATION; MARKET ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; POST-IMPLEMENTATION; PROCESS PERFORMANCE; PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES; QUALITY OF INFORMATION; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; SMES; SOFTWARE SOLUTION;

INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84857577346     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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