Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation is a complex and active process, one that involves a mixture of technological and organizational interactions. Often it is the largest IT project that an organization has ever launched and requires a mutual fit of system and organization. Concept of an ERP implementation supporting business processes across different departments in organization ...

Over the last decade, numerous companies have tried to adopt a commercial ERP package in the world-wide e-business and ecommerce environment. However, most of commercial ERP packages are designed for a large-scaled company so that it is difficult to adopt a commercial ERP package in terms of small and medium-size companies. Therefore, it is necessary for a small and medium-size company to seek ...

--This study draws on uses and gratification theory (UGT) to develop and empirically test a model for explaining enterprise resource planning (ERP) system acceptance and use. Accordingly, gratifications from the UGT such as enjoyment and informativeness are purported to have direct effects on attitudes toward using ERP and satisfaction with ERP. In turn, ERP attitude and satisfaction hypothesiz...

An ERP system plays an important role in managing business processes. Recently, many universities have implemented ERP systems. However, little research has been conducted regarding these systems in the higher education sector. This paper explores and analyzes the existing literature on ERP implementation and attempts to identify the critical success factors for a successful implementation of a...

This study attempt to find the motivation of ERP implementation based on the principal-agent theory. From the view of information resource sharing and communication, which is a critical characteristic of ERP, this paper investigates whether the decision of ERP implementation is affected by the principal-agent mechanism. Method study used economics technology to design an empirical study based o...

ERP systems had played an important role in Taiwanese industry in the past. Nowadays, most of companies have already install traditional type of ERP. However, with the development of cloud computing recently, the scope of applying cloud computing have been gradually expanded to the enterprise information system, such as cloud CRM provided by Salesforce.com, Business by Design provided by SAP. T...

ERP was the major success story of the mid-1990s (Hillegersberg and Kumar 2000). When the largest of the commercial organisations had implemented ERP packages, the ERP vendors specifically targeted midsize and smaller companies with tailored products (Avarini et al. 2000). This included universities with a module tailored specifically to them, the Student Administration module. This paper focus...

It is the key of whether the ERP system can be applied successfully to definitude, organize and manage the knowledge resources during ERP implementation scientifically. In this paper, we use the analyzing method of project management to formulate the basic plan of ERP implementation. Based on that, we analyze the required knowledge according to the phases of ERP implementation, elaborate the kn...

While abundant research deals with risks of ERP implementation, only a handful deal with ERP upgrades. This case study describes the first ERP upgrade project at the Dead Sea Works (DSW) chemical company. Whereas DSW succeeded in completing the initial ERP implementation project within budget and six months ahead of schedule, the first ERP upgrade project was fraught with difficulties in projec...

Today, standardised enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are used in a majority of enterprises. There are many ERP systems with different technologies and philosophies available on the market. Therefore, the need for providing ERP knowledge by teaching the concepts of ERP systems in study courses and above all the possibilities of using these systems themselves in courses are frequently d...