The planning functionality intrinsic of ERP is not ideal for small and medium size enterprises that operate in highly unpredictable economic environments. This paper proposes a new focus for ERP that is instead centered on dynamic management of resources based on a database structure that is equivalent to the traditional one but more attuned to today’s advanced computerized technologies.

ERP implementation project success is influenced by a large number of factors, which most of the time are difficult to measure objectively. User involvement and participation is one of the most cited critical success factors in ERP implementation projects, and one of the most critical ones for their satisfactory outcome. This study attempts to define a set of metrics for monitoring user involve...

Researchers have proposed but not tested that early-stage adopters of ERP systems tend to be higher-performing firms that adopt as a means of gaining or maintaining a competitive advantage. In contrast, they have proposed that late-stage adopters are underperforming firms that experience institutional pressures and make adoption decisions partly in response to those pressures and to try to impr...

This paper investigates the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system use in budgeting in order to explain how and why ERP system are used or not used in budgeting practices. Budgeting is considered as a social phenomenon which requires flexibility for decision-making and integration for management controls. The analysis at the activity levels, guided by the concept of ‘conflict’ in structurati...

Research Article

There is an increasing need to implement a total business solution which supports major functionalities of a business. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is designed to meet this need, and has been widely adopted by organizations in developed countries. Meanwhile, ERP is beginning to appear in many organizations of developing countries. Little research has been conducted to compare the...

Based on an interpretive case study and Activity Theory as a theoretical framework, this contribution shows how local users of an enterprise resource planning system in a Chinese joint-venture of a French multinational corporation have developed an informal organizational structure which eventually led to workaround work practices. The development and quest for alternative practices was justifi...

In this study, we wanted to investigate whether the processing of semantic information is easier when mapping names to pictures or is it the other way around. In order to test this hypothesis, we ran a behavioural and an ERP (Event Related Potential) study, with specific interest in the N400 component as an indicator of semantic processing. We compared three groups of participants who did a mat...

In response to the call for research to unlock the mystery of benefit realization in ERP adoption and theorize the important predictors’ effect on ERP implementation, we conduct this study. In this paper, we intend to theorize how leadership affects ERP implementation through fostering the desire organizational culture, in addition to its direct effect. We contend that ERP adoption success is p...