Rethinking ERP-outsourcing decisions for leveraging technological and preserving business knowledge

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 2770-2779

  Dibbern, J ^a   Brehm, L ^a   Heinzl, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Application software; Business; Companies; Computer industry; Enterprise resource planning; Information systems; Outsourcing; Packaging; Software maintenance; Software packages

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LIFE CYCLE; OUTSOURCING; PACKAGING; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE; CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK; COMPUTER INDUSTRY; EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS; OUTSOURCING DECISIONS; SERVICE PROVIDER; STRUCTURAL MODELING; TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84948687899     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2002.994320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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