Perceived Use and Acceptance of Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Implementation in the Manufacturing Industries

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to gain an insight into perceived use and acceptance for implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and the decision whether to contract out the ERP service to a cloud provider. A non-experimental, quantitative method of analysis was used for this research and a survey instrument developed by Venkatesh (2003) was used to gather data from information technology professionals in the United States. The data generated were tested using Chi Square and Multiple Regression. Chi square was used to test the hypotheses and the result establishes a pertinent relationship between the dependent variable and the independent variables. Multiple regression analysis was also conducted on the four independent variables and all of the independent variables tested have a p- value that is greater than 0.05 (p>0.05). Hence, it was concluded that the null hypothesis be accepted for all the four independent variables tested.

Critical Success Factors Affecting Implementation of Cloud ERP Systems: A Systematic Literature Review with Future Research Possibilities

“…Out of ten, seven papers conducted a survey (i.e. questionnaires) in their research design to investigate CSFs in Cloud ERP implementation [14,15,19,23,24,26,33]. For example, Gupta, Misra [15] surveyed different perspectives from cloud users and cloud vendors' in India.…”

“…For example, Gupta, Misra [15] surveyed different perspectives from cloud users and cloud vendors' in India. Whereas Adeboye [24] surveyed perspectives of cloud users and consultants. Lewandowski, Salako [19] collected data through formal interview and questionnaires from the users' perspective.…”

“…These CSFs (that are under the control of the adopter organization) can lead to the successful implementation of cloud ERP. For example, facilitating conditions refer to the extent of organizational support for the use of technology [24]. Next, people-oriented CSFs are also considerably mentioned.…”

“…For example, Gupta and Misra [14] analyzed statistics and found network, compliance, security is positively related to the success of Cloud ERP implementation. In another study, Adeboye [24] only investigate whether performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions affect the success of Cloud ERP implementation. It is important to identify the strength of sufficiency as well as criticality (strong, weak) of those CSFs.…”

“…Out of those ten papers in which CSFs were discussed, only two have described CSFs for a single industry. Adeboye [24] investigated successful implementation of cloud ERP in the manufacturing industry and reported no correlation between the performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, with Cloud ERP implementation. Alharthi, Shehab [26] identified top management support, alignment of IT with business, and readiness of organizations as CSFs for technology organizations to implement Cloud ERP.…”