This paper examines the long-term financial performance effects of ERP system changes/revisions for firms that have previously reported ERP adoptions. The study is motivated by the mixed results of recent studies examining the financial effects of ERP systems and by studies which demonstrate that ERP implementations are modular in nature and thus may yield organizational performance gains or lo...

Information Systems research and prescriptive IS project management methodologies are dominated by a perspective on single projects that treats the unit of analysis as a lonely phenomenon with strictly defined boundaries. This study questions this assumption by exploring how the taken for granted project’s boundaries are defined in practice. It investigates a case study of an ERP implementation...

Abstrakt: The development of information technology has changed familiar patterns of business behavior. The adoption of appropriate solutions, driven by current IT, became necessary for almost all market participants who want to survive and thrive in today's business environment. When we talk about the Enterprise Resource Planning systems we imply that it provides plenty of opportunities for co...

Environmental issues are nowadays a challenging topic in several research disciplines. Scare resources, environmental pollution, and the rising awareness for resource-friendly behavior guides companies to emphasize environmental aspects in their business decisions and reporting. To achieve this, Information Technology (IT) plays a vital role as an enabler for sophisticated reporting and analyti...

For most companies, it is a reality to face uncertainties when conducting complex projects focused on the implementation of Information Systems (IS) and, as a consequence, costbenefit evaluation of this kind of projects has become a difficult task. In this context, Real Options Theory (ROT) has proved to be a viable alternative to provide methods to evaluate complex projects, not only in Inform...

Managing patients in a shared-care context is a knowledge intensive activity. To support cooperative work in medical care, computer technology should either augment the capabilities of individual specialists and enhance their ability of interacting with each other and with computational resources. Thus, a major shift is needed from centralized first generation Hospital Information Systems to di...

BUSINESS MODEL FOR EUROPEAN ERP VALUE CHAINS OF SMES Ioannis Ignatiadis, Jonathan Briggs, Adomas Svirskas, Kostas Bougiouklis, Adamantios Koumpis Centre for Applied Research in Information Systems, Kingston University, UK {I.Ignatiadis, J.H.Briggs}@kingston.ac.uk Department of Computer Science, Vilnius University, LITHUANIA [email protected] Q-Plan North Greece, Thessaloniki, GREECE bougioukl...

The only vital value for an enterprise is the experience, skills, innovativeness and insights of its people. Human resources are the key components in every organization. It represents total knowledge, talent, and attitude, creative ability, aptitude and belief of an individual involved in the affairs of an organization. Management of human resources is an integral part for every concern. It is...