Declaration The work in this thesis has not been submitted previously, in whole or in part, for any other academic award and is my original work, except where acknowledged. The work has been carried out since the beginning of my research program in August 2007.Acknowledgement I take this opportunity to acknowledge, appreciate and thank all those who have helped, supported and encouraged me thro...

This paper defines the high level key concepts necessary to describe enterprise architectures in a manner that is easy to understand and to communicate. We introduce the Enterprise Architecture Modeling method (EAM), which consists of four types of diagrams: the Supply Chain Diagram, showing the main relationships of the enterprise in its business environment; the Enterprise Function Diagrams f...

The purpose of this paper is to study the motivation of enterprise technological innovation. This paper analyzes the motivation sources of enterprise technological innovation, and defines five types of sources: technological driving, demands pulling, market competition driving, entrepreneur preference driving and government behavior driving. Motivation factors are classified into three aspects,...

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ERP (Enterprise Resources Planning) plays an important role in today’s enterprise management and is beginning to be the backbone of organizations. However, the successful implementation rate is low and many firms did not achieve intended goals in China. This article is focused on important critical success factors (CSFs) of ERP implementation and discusses the Chinese ERP market. This paper als...