Designing effective incentive-oriented contracts for application service provider hosting of ERP systems

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 705-721

  Bryson, Kweku Muata ^a   Sullivan, William E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contracts; Information systems; Manufacturing resource planning; Suppliers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986059570     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150310506648     Document Type: Review

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