An integrated model to select an ERP system for Chinese small- and medium-sized enterprise under uncertainty

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 38-58

  Zeng, Yu Rong ^a,b   Wang, Lin ^a   Xu, Xian Hao ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

enterprise resource planning; fuzzy logic; grey theory; mulit criteria decision making; SME; software selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946423088     PISSN: 20294913     EISSN: 20294921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/20294913.2015.1072748     Document Type: Article

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