What Makes the Competitive Contribution of ERP Strategic

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 33-49

  Ragowsky, Arik ^a   Gefen, David ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ERP; IT Management; Strategic Grid

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996517380     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1364636.1364641     Document Type: Article

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