The role of is project critical success factors: A relevatory case

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Chua, Cecil Eng Huang ^a   Lim, Wee Kiat ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical success factors; Dialectics; ERP; Project management

Indexed keywords

CHANGE MANAGEMENT; CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR; DIALECTICS; ENTERPRISE SYSTEM; KEY USERS; PROJECT SUCCESS; PROJECT TEAM; TOP MANAGEMENT SUPPORT; USER MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84870973344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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