Enterprise Resource Planning systems allow multi-cultural organizations to harmonize and coordinate their business processes across functional departments and geographical boundaries. However, in spite of multi-language support and configuration flexibility, the technology itself cannot ensure that the implemented system satisfies all parts of the organization. In this paper, we present some of...

In business today, only the profitable will survive. While companies may strive to ramp up sales, increase market share, or hit customer service targets there is no model to sustain a successful business without profits. Thought it sounds logical, many companies don’t strive for profitability, as the objective. It is often mortgaged, sometimes unwittingly, because management does not have a fir...

This chapter addresses the problem of enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation in Higher Education Institutions (HEI). It attempts to contribute to the understanding of ERP implementations in this kind of organizations by identifying and analyzing the major factors that affect this type of projects. Special attention has been paid to contextual influence and to organizational factors. ...

enterprise resource planning (erp) plays an important role in today’s enterprise management and is beginning to be the backbone of organizations and started working on the next-phase in the enterprise system life-cycle, referred to as erpii . implementation of erpii projects takes a considerable time and resources from the organization. therefore, it is essential that critical success factors (...

OF THE DISSERTATION Cooperative Resource Allocation in Wireless Systems

Many organizations have implemented Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, hoping to use the information integration these systems provide to improve process efficiency and effectiveness. In particular, ERP systems may be instrumental in realizing Cooperative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR). In this paper, we present an experimental approach that will be used to assess the ...

How do complex societal demands and time constraints posed by distributed temporary organizing affect organizational communication? Extending Bowker and Star’s (2002) work on infrastructures, we introduce two context-specific ‘invisible’, social infrastructures: organizational and relational. We empirically assess their role in an international, multi-site ERP-software implementation. We invest...

Drawing hypotheses from resource mobilization and resource partitioning theories (RMT and RPT), this article examines how interorganizational competition and social movement industry (SMI) concentration affect the level of tactical and goal specialization of protest organizations associated with the peace, women’s, and environmental movements. Additionally, the article examines how specializati...

Lean practices and principles build on a half-century of successive initiatives aimed at transforming social and technical systems in organizations. While they are seen as central to the revitalization of the U.S. aerospace industry, there is great variation in the degree to which lean initiatives emphasize just technical/manufacturing systems versus additional social and enterprise dimensions....