Designing effective incentive-oriented outsourcing contracts for ERP systems

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 2760-2769

  Bryson, K M ^a   Sullivan, W E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical models; Application specific processors; Contracts; Costs; Economies of scale; Enterprise resource planning; Management information systems; Management training; Outsourcing; Technology management

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; CONTRACTS; COSTS; ECONOMICS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGERS; OUTSOURCING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

APPLICATION SERVICE PROVIDER; APPLICATION SPECIFIC PROCESSORS; ECONOMIES OF SCALE; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS OUTSOURCING; MANAGEMENT TRAINING; OUTSOURCING RELATIONSHIPS; TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENTS;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84948665940     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2002.994317     Document Type: Conference Paper

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