Project planning practices based on enterprise resource planning systems in small and medium enterprises - A case study from the Republic of Macedonia

International Journal of Project Management

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 529-539

  Tasevska, Frosina ^a   Damij, Talib ^a   Damij, Nadja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Faculty of Information Studies   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

ERP project; Project management; Project success; SMEs implementation

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INDUSTRY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVEYS;

CORRELATION AND REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS; ERP PROJECTS; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; PROJECT SUCCESS; REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA; SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE; SMES IMPLEMENTATION;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; PLANNING PRACTICE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

MACEDONIA [SOUTHERN EUROPE];

EID: 84894262922     PISSN: 02637863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2013.08.001     Document Type: Article

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