Interactions between Organizational Size, Culture, and Structure and Some it Factors in the Context of ERP Success Assessment: An Exploratory Investigation
Journal of Computer Information SystemsPublished 5 January 2016
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An exploratory study to investigate the impacts of size, culture, and structure of the adopting organization on ERP system success evaluations and revealed positive relationships between organizational size, structure, and culture and ERP systems success.
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are packaged information technology (IT) suites that are increasingly becoming the price of entry for running a business, and such systems are gaining popularity worldwide. Researchers have discussed their adoption and implementation. Few have investigated the impacts of size, culture, and structure of the adopting organization on ERP system success evaluations. There is also a dearth of research on the effects of organizational IT issues or factors such as IT assets and resources (i.e., the IT department's value, the IT department's size, and the sophistication of the in-house IT professionals, among others) on ERP systems success. To our knowledge no study has investigated the interactions between these organizational IT issues and other contingency factors. To fill this gap in research, we designed an exploratory study to investigate the impacts of the aforementioned factors in the context of ERP systems success evaluations. Rather than considering the impacts...
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