Efficient use of enterprise resource planning systems is the only way to achieve competitive advantage in many industries. However, many reports indicate high failure rate of ERP implementation projects and the lack of access to benefits and advantages that enterprises have expected from ERP deployment. Managers are concerned about being ready to deploy such a system. Despite its enormous cost,...

Today’s enterprices require more information and communication in order to reduce costs under the current scarce resources, to shorten delivery time, to increase quality and product variety, in other words, are obligated to develop "an integrated information system". Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems help unleash the true potential of companies by integrating business and management pr...

Though many information systems researchers have made various attempts to investigate the relationship between information technology capability and firm performance from diverse perspectives, we have not come to a conclusion yet with some mixed results. In this research, focusing on the adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning systems by firms as a proxy measure of information technology capab...

It has become common practice for higher education institutions (HEIs) to replace existing computer systems, called legacy administrative information with new ones cope the continuously changing demands in context of education. At top these systems is enterprise resource planning (ERP) that integrate HEIs' business processes, functions, and data improve their overall productivity effectiveness....

Lack of clarity regarding the scope and integration of business process management and enterprise resource planning are recurring themes. This results in difficulties in understanding relationships between the two constructs. Business processes are constellations of activities fundamental to organizations and must be managed like all other organizational resources. Continual changes in organiza...

In this paper the resource-based view of the firm is used to describe and explain how organisations, which have different roles in the value-chain in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system development/implementation project, receive competitive advantage from selling or using ERPs. This discussion relates to the on-going discussion about how organisations receive competitive advantage fro...