Justifying an ERP investment: Critical success factors for transformation investments;Justification des investissements en PGI: Facteurs de Succès pour les investissements transformationnels

ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Sammon, David ^a   Adam, Frederic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Case studies; CSFs; ERP projects; Theory building; Transformation investments

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR; CSFS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; ERP IMPLEMENTATION; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION; PROJECT OUTCOMES; RESEARCH PAPERS; ROOT CAUSE; SELF-ASSESSMENT; THEORY BUILDING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS; MANAGERS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84870967031     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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