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Sustainability of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Benefits Postimplementation: An Individual User Perspective by Mohamed Abdalla Mohamed Badreldin Lotfy MS, Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt, 1988 BE, Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt, 1981 BS, Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt, 1981 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Applied Management and Decision Sciences