Adoption of ERPs in a medium-sized enterprise - A case study

ACIS 2008 Proceedings - 19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 887-896

  Seethamraju, Ravi ^a   Seethamraju, Jaya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adoption; ERP systems; Medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ADOPTION DECISION; BUSINESS OPERATION; CASE STUDY APPROACH; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS; ENTERPRISE SYSTEM; ERP SYSTEM; EXTERNAL FACTORS; FINANCIAL RESOURCES; INTEGRATED INFORMATIONS; MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; PROCESS PERFORMANCE; QUALITY OF INFORMATION; SOFTWARE SOLUTION; SUPPLY CHAIN PARTNERS;

DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROCESS CONTROL; RESEARCH; SUPPLY CHAINS; VISIBILITY;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84869110476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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