Organisations and vanilla software: What do we know about ERP systems and competitive advantage?

16th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fosser, Erik ^a   Leister, Ole Henrik ^a   Moe, Carl Erik ^a   Newman, Mike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS FUNCTIONS; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; DE FACTO STANDARD; EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS; ENTERPRISE SYSTEM; ERP SYSTEM; FOOD INDUSTRIES; IT SYSTEM;

COMPETITION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LEGACY SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84870640344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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