SaaS ERP adoption intent: Explaining the South African SME perspective

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 139 LNBIP, Issue , 2013, Pages 35-47

  Faasen, Julian ^a   Seymour, Lisa F ^a   Schuler, Joachim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b PFORZHEIM UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Enterprise Resource Planning; Information Systems adoption; SaaS ERP; Software as a Service; South African SME

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS);

DATA SECURITY RISKS; EXISTING SYSTEMS; INDUSTRY SECTORS; INTERPRETIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; SOUTH AFRICAN SME; SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84876043270     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36611-6_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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