The Same, but Different: Enterprise Systems Adoption Lifecycles in Transition Economies

Impediments to Enterprise System Implementation over the System Lifecycle: Contrasting Transition and Developed Economies

“…Problems in a transition economy tended to spread over time and affect companies to a greater extent than in developed economies. Specifically, constant care is required as regards cooperation with the system vendor, which confirms the findings of The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries www.ejisdc.org Themistocleous et al (2011) suggesting that in transition economies different rules of collaboration between ES adopters and providers may exist.…”

“…Recent studies conducted in transition economies examined the relationships among key ES adoption stakeholders and emphasized the idea of the system lifecycle (Soja, 2011;Themistocleous et al, 2011). The results revealed that the crucial determinants of ES adoption in transition economies are people-related and that some changes in time are observed: from issues connected with infrastructure and finance to human considerations.…”

“…In this case, ES adopters in transition economies seem to prefer the greater interaction with bidders over the sophisticated requirements engineering techniques (Lech, 2012). In addition, ES adoption projects may go through a different system lifecycle and might require different roles of the project participants, as compared to developed countries (Themistocleous et al, 2011). Different aspects of ES adoptions analyzed by the prior studies conducted in transition economies include benefits from ES adoption.…”

“…Kim et al, 2005). The multi-staged character of ES adoption calls for the incorporation of the system lifecycle into the investigation of ES adoption issues (Themistocleous et al, 2011). This observation and different ES considerations experienced by projects conducted in transition and developed economies were the main drivers for this research.…”

Determinants of the implementation of information and communication technologies in clusters of enterprises

“…Pored osnovne hipoteze, zbog specifičnosti privrednog ambijenta u RS, postavljene su pomoćne hipoteze, koje treba da ukažu na signifikantnost uticaja svake navedene determinante na kvalitet primene ICT: Hipoteza H 1 odnosi se na uticaj nivoa ulaganja u ICT (V 1 ) na kvalitet primene ICT (Y), respektujući okolnosti da u mnogim preduzećima u RS ne postoji definisana ICT strategija, posebno u grupi malih i srednjih preduzeća (Roztocki & Weistroffer, 2011;Themistocleous et al, 2011;Stefanović, 2005; Republički zavod za statistiku, 2012), koja čine preko 90% svih preduzeća.…”