While it is now well established that IT intensive firms are more productive, a critical question remains: Does IT cause productivity or are productive firms simply willing to spend more on IT? We address this question by examining the productivity and performance effects of enterprise systems investments in a uniquely detailed and comprehensive data set of 623 large, public U.S. firms. The dat...

this paper discusses the performance evaluation and availability analysis of ammonia synthesis unit of a fertilizer plant. the fertilizer plant is a complex and repairable engineering system comprises of various units viz. shell gasification and carbon recovery, desulphurization, co-shift conversion, decarbonation, nitrogen wash and ammonia synthesis etc. one of the most important functionaries...

the impact of the management performance evaluation methods on the information quality in accounting will be studied in this paper. the information plays two roles in the market-oriented economies; first, it allows the investors to evaluate the potential opportunities of the investment (prospective role) and, secondly, it enables the investors to monitor how to allocate and use their capital by...

Here, we propose a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) method to evaluate the alternatives of enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The fuzzy AHP approach allows the users get values more accurately to model the vagueness which changes according subjective ideas in the decision-making environment for ERP system selection problem. Therefore, fuzzy AHP method is used to obtain firm decis...

Cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are hosted services offering opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that often lack IT resources. Few studies have examined the adoption of cloud ERP in SMEs, specifically, from perspective vendors who domain experts. Drawing on vendors’ perspectives New Zealand (NZ) context, this paper evaluates influential characteristics a...

The ERP business solution drives performance improvement by integrating an enterprise through software. However, it does not have the capability to make key business decisions. It is relevant key business decisions that enable and deliver business results. ERP can provide information and data to assist people in making key business decisions. Unfortunately, there are several cases of ERP implem...

In the present paper, we use data mining methods to address two challenges in the sharing and integration of data from electrophysiological (ERP) studies of human brain function. The first challenge, ERP metric matching, is to identify correspondences among distinct summary features ("metrics") in ERP datasets from different research labs. The second challenge, ERP pattern matching, is to align...

performance evaluation is one of the important components of each organization, and educational organizations are not the exceptions. teachers are believed by many researchers as the single most important factor influencing student academic success or failure. therefore, they need to be at the center of attempts to improve or reform the educational system of any country. considering the pivotal...

The effect of a Make-To-Order (MTO) production strategy on the applicability and impact of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems is investigated through a mixed method approach comprised of an exploratory and explanatory survey followed by three case studies. Data on Make-To-Stock (MTS) companies is also collected as a basis for comparison. The exploratory data demonstrates, for example, t...