Different opinions about whether an organization gains a competitive advantage (CA) from an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system exist. However, this paper describes another angle of the much reported competitive advantage discussion. The basic question in the paper concerns how thoughts about receiving competitive advantage from customizing ERPs influences feedback in ERP development. ERP...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects continue to attract attention, as researchers seek to develop insights and understanding of the conditions required for successful project delivery. Having spent an entire career to-date in different ICT roles, the authors have experienced several ERP implementations. There is considerable literature on what constitutes precedent conditions for succes...

Purpose This study investigates the impact of such contingency factors as top management support, business vision, and external expertise, on the one hand, and ERP system success, on the other. Design/methodology/approach A conceptual model was developed and relevant hypotheses formulated. Surveys were conducted in two Northern European countries and a structural equation modeling technique was...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between some implementation variables and performance improvement of ERP systems. DeLone and McLean (1992) surveyed 180 articles attempting to measure information systems (IS) success and proposed an analysis framework, composed of six dimensions, for assessing the ERP performance in the post-implementation stage. In this paper, DeLone-&M...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have been used in integrating information and accelerating its distribution across functions and departments with the aim to increase organizations’ operational performance. Thus, it is worth measuring ERP system performance based on its impact to critical performance of an organization: this requires a systematic method that bridges ERP performance me...

In the latest years, the offering of Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs) started to target in part the Public Administrations (PA's) and, above all, the Small / Medium Enterprises (SMEs), both by software multinational corporations and by local software houses. The introduction of ERPs into SMEs cannot be based on a sheer reproduction of the experiences with larger companies and represe...

Academia generally employs a strict disciplinary model of education that results in a high degree of specialization within each discipline, while modern business environments require knowledge workers who can address problems and opportunities that cut across disciplines and on a global scale. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a new and innovative educational activity that ...

ERP system implementations are often problematic leading to numerous problems during and after the introduction. Although user involvement is regarded as an important success factor, the implementation difficulties indicate a lack of understanding of the process as well as methods and tools to mediate it. We argue that ERP implementations have to be understood as design processes requiring know...

Disastrous situations, either naturally (such as fires, earthquake, rising tides, hurricane) or man-made (such as terrorist bombings, chemical spills, and so on), have claimed the lives of thousands. As such, optimizing the evacuation operations during an emergency situation would require an effective crowd evacuation plan, which is acknowledged to be one of the vital studies of the societal re...

This article presents results of a research on integration of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) e-Learning model into the university curriculum. The study presented in this article aims to propose ERP e-Learning models to curriculum designers in Turkey. For this purpose, developed ERP e-Learning models are gathered from the literature although there only few ERP e-Learning models exist in the ...