ERP adoption cost factors identification and classification: A study in SMEs

International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 5-21

  Haddara, Moutaz ^a   Elragal, Ahmed ^b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Gamal Abdel Nasser   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cost identification; ERP; Expert panel; SME

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893614544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21827788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12821/ijispm010201     Document Type: Article

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