Normal accidents: Data quality problems in erp-enabled manufacturing

Journal of Data and Information Quality

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Cao, Lan ^a   Zhu, Hongwei ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Data quality; Enterprise resource planning; ERP; Normal accident; Tight coupling

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH;

COMPLEXITY; DATA MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; DATA QUALITY; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SHARING; NORMAL ACCIDENT THEORY; ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT; TIGHT COUPLING;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84895530388     PISSN: 19361955     EISSN: 19361963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2458517.2458519     Document Type: Article

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