The Enterprise Resource Planning Decade: Lessons Learned and Issues for the Future

by Adam, Frederic; Sammon, David

• ISBN13: 9781591401889
• ISBN10: 1591401887
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Idea Group Pub

Table of Contents

Preface	vi
Chapter I Setting the Scene - Defining and Understanding ERP Systems	1	(21)
David Sammon, University College Cork, Ireland
Frédéric Adam, University College Cork, Ireland
Chapter II The Road to ERP -Has Industry Learned or Revolved Back to the Start?	22	(25)
Bill O'Gorman, University College Cork, Ireland
Chapter III Investigating the Rationale for ERP: A Case Study	47	(11)
Eleanor Doyle, University College Cork, Ireland
Frédéric Adam, University College Cork, Ireland
Chapter IV ERP Software Selection-Widening the Current Debate	58	(14)
David Sammon, University College Cork, Ireland
Frédéric Adam, University College Cork, Ireland
Chapter V Understanding the Business Consequences of ERP Systems	72	(20)
Lorraine Staehr, La Trube University, Australia
Graeme Shanks, Monash University, Australia
Peter B. Seddon, University of Melbourne, Australia
Chapter VI An Examination of an ERP Software Selection Process: An Irish Case Study	92	(22)
David Sammon, University College Cork, Ireland
David Lawlor, Stryker Instruments (Cork), Ireland
Chapter VII Do ERP Implementations Have to be Lengthy? Lessons from Irish SMEs	114	(24)
Frédéric Adam, University College Cork, Ireland
Peter O'Doherty, Seabrook Research Limited, Ireland
Chapter VIII Implementing ERP-What Happens to Competitive Advantage?	138	(29)
David Sammon, University College Cork, Ireland
Frédéric Adam, University College Cork, Ireland
Kevin Higgins, Ulster Bank, Ireland
Mark Synnott, Intel, Ireland
Chapter IX Examining the Influence of ERP Systems on Firm-Specific Knowledge Assets and Capabilities	167	(40)
Tom Butler, University College Cork, Ireland
Aidan Pyke, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
Chapter X Toward a Model of Organizational Prerequisites for ERP: Reintroducing the Concept of Data Warehousing	207	(19)
David Sammon, University College Cork, Ireland
Frederic Adam, University College Cork, Ireland
Chapter XI Toward a Model of Investigating Non-Decision Making in ERP Communities	226	(22)
David Sammon, University College Cork, Ireland
Frédéric Adam, University College Cork, Ireland
Chapter XII Re-Examining the ERP Concept: Toward an Agenda for Reducing the Unbalance Between the Push and Pull Sides on the ERP Market	248	(15)
David Sammon, University College Cork, Ireland
Frédéric Adam, University College Cork, Ireland
Chapter XIII From ERP Systems to Enterprise Portals	263	(25)
Sven A. Carlsson, Lund University, Sweden
Jonas Hedman, Lund University, Sweden
Chapter XIV Looking to the Future of Enterprise-Wide Systems	288	(6)
Frédéric Adam, University College Cork, Ireland
David Sammon, University College Cork, Ireland
About the Authors	294	(5)
Index	299