The decision to upgrade Enterprise Systems (ES) is influenced by various factors, which are either internal or external to the organisation. Although previous studies have explored these factors, the majority of these studies have focused on Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) systems only. Thus, this study through a qualitative survey design draws from the expertise of 41 respondents represent...

Purpose – To develop an analytical framework through which the organizational cultural dimension of enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations can be analyzed. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is primarily based on a review of the literature. Findings – ERP is an enterprise system that offers, to a certain extent, standard business solutions. This standardization is reinforced b...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, also called Enterprise Systems (ES), have received much attention from researchers and practitioners. Along with that many researches have underlined the pivotal role of knowledge management for enterprise system success. This research in progress paper explores articles published in 8 journals during recent 11 years for knowledge management instances...

Successful adoption and implementation of ERP Systems has been the subject of extensive research as can be evidenced by the large body of research literature on this topic. However, the effect of cross-cultural issues has been less widely studied, perhaps because of the difficulty and complexity of such cross-cultural studies. In today’s global business environment this remains a key issue and ...

Despite the huge investments by organizations in ERP implementation, maintenance, and user training, ERP implementation failures and less-than-satisfactory productivity improvements are common. End-users’ reluctance or unwillingness to adopt or use the newly implemented ERP system is often cited as one of the main reasons for ERP failures. To examine factors leading to the lack of end-user acce...

While the rise of the Internet has received most of the media attention in recent years, the business world’s embrace of enterprise systems may in fact be the most important development in the corporate use of information technology in the 1990s (Davenport 1998). Therefore, it would be prudent for greater attention to be given to the study of enterprise systems per se, so that we may then apply...

It is very important for the businesses in our country to understand the concepts and terms of e-business and to start applying them. In the 1990’s, ERP systems were introduced to fulfill some of the technological requirements across functional areas within a corporate boundary. Moreover, with the exponential growth of Internet technology and the emergence of e-business, the focus of ERP system...

ERP (Enterprise resource planning) systems implementation is a complex exercise in organizational innovation and change management. Government organizations are increasing their adoption of these systems for various benefits such as integrated real-time information, better administration, and result-based management. Government organizations, due to their social obligations, higher legislative ...