The functional units of today’s complex business environment require more and more interfunctional data flow for decision making, timely and efficient procurement of product parts, management of inventory, accounting, human resources, and distribution of goods and services. Management of such organizations need efficient information systems to improve competitiveness by cost reduction and bette...

This article provides an overview of perspectives associated with information and knowledge resource management in systems engineering and systems management in accomplishing enterprise resource planning for enhanced innovation and productivity. Accordingly, we discuss economic concepts involving information and knowledge, and the important role of network effects and path dependencies in influ...

Cloud computing has become one of the fastest growing segments of the IT industry. In the wake of this, cloud based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have emerged as an alternative to traditional ERPs These systems require low upfront investments and can rapidly be deployed, as they are provided over the cloud. In this study we seek to unravel cloud ERP adoption by identifying and clas...

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...

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...

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...

This paper proposes key points for the timing and scope of enterprise systems benefit assessment. Enterprise systems (ES) such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems support a wide range of enterprise processes influencing organizational management in various areas. Due to the complexity of the system design the learning curve is long, and with constant changes in technology and business...

enterprise resource planning system is a software package with extensive application which integrates all organizational functions in a single system. to implement an erp project in an organization successfully, selecting an appropriate system considering effective factors is necessary. the purpose of this study is to identify effective factors in selecting erp. this study has used expert choic...