The role of social and intellectual capital in achieving competitive advantage through enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management - JET-M

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 307-330

  Lengnick Hall, Cynthia A ^a   Lengnick Hall, Mark L ^b   Abdinnour Helm, Sue ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Dual core systems; Enterprise resource planning; Loosely coupled systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; DUAL-CORE SYSTEMS; INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL; LOOSELY COUPLED SYSTEMS;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 9944256482     PISSN: 09234748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jengtecman.2004.09.005     Document Type: Article

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