THE CHALLENGES OF ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION: CYCLES OF INTEGRATION AND DISINTEGRATION OVER TIME

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 927-938

  Lee, Jiunn Chieh ^a   Myers, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

critical ethnography; Enterprise integration; enterprise resource planning; ERP

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATION; LIFE CYCLE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY; CUSTOMER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION; ENTERPRISE RESOURCES PLANNING; ENTERPRISE SYSTEM; INFORMATION SYSTEM RESEARCH; INFORMATION SYSTEMS PRACTICES; MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84975485319     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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