... implementation from an inter-firm supply chain collaboration perspective. Additional contribution includes some interesting empirical evidences on the current state of ERP utilization in the Chinese market. Structural equation modeling Enterprise resource planning Knowledge sharing Supply chain...

...Placide Poba-Nzaou; Louis Raymond; Bruno Fabi Purpose – This study aims to explore the process of open source software (OSS) adoption in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and more specifically open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) as a “mission critical” OSS application...

...Ben Clegg, Jillian MacBryde and Prasanta Dey; Daryl Powell Purpose – Faced with increasing global competition and growing customer expectations, manufacturers looking for significant performance improvements often look to one of the two choices: implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP...

...Ben Clegg, Jillian MacBryde and Prasanta Dey; Ben Clegg; Yi Wan Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems development and emerging practices in the management of enterprises (i.e. parts of companies working with parts of other companies...

...Giovani J.C. da Silveira; Brent Snider; Jaydeep Balakrishnan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of compensation‐based incentives in relationships between enterprise resource planning (ERP) usage and delivery performance in manufacturing. Design/methodology/approach...

... to address this issue by presenting an innovative pedagogical approach designed to provide learners with an authentic problem‐solving experience in operations management within an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Design/methodology/approach The paper proposes a simulation game called ERPsim...

...Jan de Vries; Albert Boonstra Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate a model that demonstrates the influence of enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation on the power and interests of actors at the production‐sales interface, and vice versa. Design/methodology...

...Marc J. Schniederjans; Gyu C. Kim The primary objective of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is to help integrate an organization's business operations and processes effectively and efficiently. Not all firms have been successful in their ERP implementations and to that end research has...

...Fawzy Soliman; Stewart Clegg; Tarek Tantoush Current advances in information technology and, in particular, computer‐aided design/computer‐aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) and enterprise resources planning (ERP) systems, have led organisations to undertake significant investments in these systems...