Adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 475-492

  Seethamraju, Ravi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adoption; ERP; SaaS; SMEs

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE; LIFE CYCLE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS); WEB SERVICES;

ADOPTION; CO-CREATION OF VALUES; COMPETITIVE PRESSURE; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS; POST-IMPLEMENTATION; SAAS; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; SMES;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84929521282     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-014-9506-5     Document Type: Article

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