This paper examines the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system in a multinational organization. In doing so, it evaluates and critiques the existing literature, and then provides an alternative analysis of ERP implementation based on the concept of knowledge integration, which involves the on-going interaction cross-functionally between organizational members. By examining ...

Getting advanced in communication and information technologies and their impact on all aspects of human life, the world is experiencing a new phenomenon named information society. Therefore, e-learning is a necessity to develop the quality of learning in this kind of society. The purpose of this study was to identify the barriers of e-learning implementation by M.Sc. Students in agricultural fa...

Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) as an interconnection scheme between organizations has been shown to have significant benefits. Since its inception in the 1990s, its uptake has been lower than originally predicted. This paper identifies the major barriers and their interrelationships in CPFR implementations with a focus on high-tech industries. Interpretive Structur...

Researchers and practitioners have pointed out that ignorance of knowledge transfer from consultancy to client is the reason for high ERP implementation failure rate. Although IT implementation and Innovation diffusion research have identified and empirically investigated various implementation success factors, few studies have empirically examined influential factors from the knowledge transfe...

This paper identifies and highlights the significance of Wasta as a barrier to e-government implementation within The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and is part of a wider qualitative research study of all barriers. A longitudinal research approach was applied to explore any dynamism within the presence of barriers over a three year study, as well as to seek a richer understanding of such barriers...

In this paper we present findings from our recent empirical study of software process improvement (SPI) implementation critical barriers (CBs) in twenty-six Australian software companies. The objective of this study is to summarise the issues that playa negative role in the implementation of SPI programmes and to identify the key barriers. Through our empirical study we identified 5 barriers (o...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to explore barriers to and enablers for future implementation of a draft clinical pathway for anxiety and depression in cancer patients in the Australian context. METHODS Health professionals reviewed a draft clinical pathway and participated in qualitative interviews about the delivery of psychosocial care in their setting, individual components of the draft pathw...

BACKGROUND Compositional mechanisms for the entry of clinically relevant controlled vocabularies have been suggested as a possible solution to providing adequate descriptive precision while keeping term vocabulary redundancy under control. As of yet, there are no widely accepted term navigators that allow physicians to enter problem lists utilizing controlled vocabularies with compositionality....

Telehomecare is one of the technological solutions used by older persons to remain living at home in their own community. A selection of 85 Dutch telehomecare projects was examined in terms of the barriers to their implementation. Three categories of telehomecare technologies were distinguished: (i) remote telecare, (ii) activity monitoring, and (iii) a category comprising telemedicine and e-he...