What practitioners think of inter-organizational erp requirements engineering practices: Focus group results

International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 49-74

  Daneva, Maya ^a   Ahituv, Niv ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Empirical software engineering; Enterprise resource planning; Focus group research; Qualitative research methods; Requirements engineering

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS; FOCUS GROUPS; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL COORDINATIONS; PRESCRIPTIVE MODELS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS; SUBOPTIMAL SOLUTION;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84865511375     PISSN: 19478186     EISSN: 19478194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jismd.2011070103     Document Type: Article

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