Enterprise resource planning: cultural fits and misfits

Software-as-a-Service Model: Elaborating Client-Side Adoption Factors

“…In such cases, clients can either change their organizational practices to fit the software or customize the software application to fit their needs at some cost (Lucas et al 1988;Soh et al 2000;Francalanci 2001). …”

Oczekiwania jednostek sektora zamówień publicznych w zakresie wsparcia rachunkowości zarządczej przez zintegrowane systemy zarządzania

“…W tym obszarze podejmowanym tematem jest próba określenia problemów, czynników sukcesu oraz strategii wdrożenia takich systemów [m.in. Wagner, Antonucci 2009;Soh, Kien, Tay-Yap 2000], w Polsce brak kompleksowych badań w tym zakresie.…”

Enterprise System as an Orchestrator of Dynamic Capability Development: A Case Study of the IRAS and TechCo

“…These posited business paradigms, as predefined by the vendor, serve as convenient templates for corporations to mirror competitive praxis, although in many instances the projected benefits of the implemented ES do not materialize (Markus and Tanis 2000). The failures have been attributed to a blend of socio-technical constraints surrounding ES, such as their complexities, their customization difficulties, and the presence of cultural misfits underlying their inherent business process assumptions and those of the adopting organization (Howcroft and Light 2002;Lee and Lee 2000;Soh et al 2000). While we do not underestimate the aforementioned technological and organizational challenges of ES implementation, the purpose of this paper is to shed light on how competitive benefits can be manifested through ES adoption, rather than the reason why they can or cannot be realized.…”

“…Unfortunately, it is usually tedious to embark on such an extensive evaluation campaign. ES, however, conveniently overcome this predicament with the inclusion of the best business practices predominant in the industry (Soh et al 2000). TechCo, for instance, employed the SAP system as the key element of its business strategy to simulate an intra-organizational knowledge-sharing network on par with the prevailing standards.…”