ALIGNMENT IN ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATIONS: THE ROLE OF ONTOLOGICAL DISTANCE

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 439-448

  Rosemann, Michael ^a   Weber, Ron A G ^b   Vessey, Iris ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alignment; Enterprise systems; ontology

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT; ENTERPRISE SYSTEM; ENTERPRISE SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION; ONTOLOGY'S; OPERATIONS SUPPORT; ORGANISATIONAL; RETURNS ON INVESTMENT; SYSTEM CAPABILITIES; SYSTEM PACKAGE;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 85138744400     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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