Narratives in ERP systems evaluation

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 283-290

  Hedman, Jonas ^a   Borell, Andreas ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Tetra Pak Global Information Management   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Information systems; Manufacturing resource planning; Narratives

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986120928     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410390410548698     Document Type: Review

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