Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have become an essential information systems infrastructure for large organisations. These organisations are now looking for ways to leverage their ERP investment by introducing new functionality. However no matter how many implementations these companies have undertaken the same people issues still provide barriers. This research looks at the change m...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) literature concentrates on critical success factors for implementation. More recently, published work relates to ERP maintenance and upgrade practices. In papers concerning all phases of the ERP lifecycle, researchers commonly gather material via case studies of organizations comparatively new to ERP implementation, maintenance, or upgrade projects. This artic...

This technical research report describes a case of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation in a Portuguese SME. We focused on the identification of organizational factors that affect the ERP implementation project. We also analyzed the ERP implementation project from a national cultural perspective using Geert Hofstede’s dimensions. These dimensions were used to explain some of the...

Eminent Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) literature concentrates on critical success factors for implementation. More recently, published work relates to ERP maintenance and upgrade practices. In papers concerning all phases of the ERP lifecycle, researchers commonly gather material via case studies of organizations comparatively new to ERP implementation, maintenance, or upgrade projects. Th...

263 Implementing the ERP system is one method of minimizing cost and maximizing profit to increase competitive advantage. However, numerous factors influence ERP implementation success, including user resistance. This study thus attempts to explain behavioural intention and actual usage of ERP implementation based on the technology acceptance model (TAM). The model also incorporates additional ...

Existence of an adequate project champion role has been identified as a critical success factor in ERP implementation projects. However, the figure of the project champion is not yet quite well understood. Some authors relate it with the project sponsor figure while others relate it with the project manager figure. This paper tries to clarify these concepts. Our research framework has been base...

teleworking as an innovative way has many benefits in governmental, organizational and individual levels, but it faced with different variables in plan and implementation which is caused to low acceptance rate in organizations. by identifying and controlling these variables, managers and decision-makers can use teleworking programs in their organizations. the aim of this study is to investigate...

In recent years, the implementation of ERP is as a lever for development and inter-organizational collaboration. The ERP is a powerful tool for integration, sharing of information, and fluidizing of the process within the organizations (El Amrani et al. 2006; Kocoglu and Moatti, 2010). The company must not only equip and computerization but it must opt for the establishment of an IT infrastruct...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems, and more especially their successful adoption and implementation, have been the subject of extensive research as can be evidenced by the large body of literature on this and related topics in the extant literature to date. However, the effect of cross-cultural issues has been less widely studied, perhaps because of the difficulty and complexity of suc...