This paper develops a conceptual framework to examine how enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems may affect knowledge capabilities that enable organizational improvisation. Drawing upon research into knowledge integration, improvisation and communities of practice, a new concept, minimal structures of knowledge, is introduced. In jazz improvisation, minimal structures (e.g., jazz chord prog...

The N 4 0 0 is an endogenous event-related brain potential (ERP) that is sensitive to semantic processes during language comprehension. The general question we address in this paper is which aspects of the comprehension process are manifest in the N 4 0 0 . The focus is on the sensitivity of the N 4 0 0 to the automatic process of lexical access, or to the controlled process of lexical integrat...

In the area of enterprise information integration, enterprise services are usually pre-defined and constructed before being supplied to users traditionally. However, with the rising of users’ individuation needs, constructing and offering every user with the very service that can meet their needs by service provider is impossible and costly. In order to solve this problem, a new method of dynam...

To create new added value the Semantic Web has to provide new means for business integration enabling open world-wide cooperation between various enterprises. Existing business integration techniques assume the enterprises having similar conceptual models of the objects being exchanged, and this limits their application areas. The Semantic Web needs to possess a technique capable of mapping dif...

Lean practices and principles build on a half-century of successive initiatives aimed at transforming social and technical systems in organizations. While they are seen as central to the revitalization of the U.S. aerospace industry, there is great variation in the degree to which lean initiatives emphasize just technical/manufacturing systems versus additional social and enterprise dimensions....

While previous studies have focused mainly on the potential benefits and critical success factors associated with ERP implementation, very few have explored the important issues of impediments encountered, especially from a knowledge integration perspective. We have adopted a knowledge integration view that focuses not on the distribution and adoption of particular technological artifacts (ERP ...

Virtual enterprise (VE) relies on resource sharing and collaboration across geographically dispersed and dynamically allied businesses in order to better respond to market opportunities. It is generally considered that effective data integration and management is crucial to realise the value of VE. This paper describes a cloud-based data integration framework that can be used for supporting VE ...

Enterprise application is a term applied to a large class of applications that comprise enterprise resource planning (ERP), shop floor automation, supply chain management (SCM), ebusiness and customer relationship management (CRM) systems. Examples of enterprise applications include airline reservation systems, bank asset management systems, and businessto-business supply chain management syste...

A purported feature of Enterprise Systems (ES) is that they are “integrated”; meaning that they in some sense bring parts into a unified whole. However, it is far from clear what is integrated into what, or how integration is achieved in practice. Moreover, the very concepts of integration and other related, fundamental concepts such as ‘organization’, ‘coordination’ and ‘knowledge’ are abstrus...

Enterprise applications implement business resource management systems, customer relationship management systems, and general systems for commerce. These applications rely on infrastructure that represents the vast majority of the world’s computing resources. Most of this infrastructure is lightly utilized and inflexible. This paper considers the role of Grid technologies in increasing the util...