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WSKS 2009: Best Practices for the Knowledge Society. Knowledge, Learning, Development and Technology for All pp 387–394Cite as

ERP and Four Dimensions of Absorptive Capacity: Lessons from a Developing Country

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Enterprise resource planning systems can grant crucial strategic, operational and information-based benefits to adopting firms when implemented successfully. However, a failed implementation can often result in financial losses rather than profits. Until now, the research on the failures and successes were focused on implementations in large manufacturing and service organizations firms located in western countries, particularly in USA. Nevertheless, IT has gained intense diffusion to developing countries through declining hardware costs and increasing benefits that merits attention as much as developed countries. The aim of this study is to examine the implications of knowledge transfer in a developing country, Turkey, as a paradigm in the knowledge society with a focus on the implementation activities that foster successful installations. We suggest that absorptive capacity is an important characteristic of a firm that explains the success level of such a knowledge transfer.

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  1. Department of Business Administration, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, C/Madrid, 126 28903, Getafe (Madrid), España

    María José Álvarez Gil, Dilan Aksoy & Borbala Kulcsar

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  1. Open Research Society, Gerakas Attikis, NGO, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. University of Ovieto, Spain

    Patricia Ordonez de Pablos

  3. Department of Information Technology, University of Milan, via Bramante, 65 - 26013, Crema (CR), Italy

    Ernesto Damiani

  4. ESSEC Business School, Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France

    David Avison

  5. KMR group at NADA/KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Lindstedtsv. 5, P.O. Box, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ambjörn Naeve

  6. The American College of Greece, Greece

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Gil, M.J.Á., Aksoy, D., Kulcsar, B. (2009). ERP and Four Dimensions of Absorptive Capacity: Lessons from a Developing Country. In: Lytras, M.D., Ordonez de Pablos, P., Damiani, E., Avison, D., Naeve, A., Horner, D.G. (eds) Best Practices for the Knowledge Society. Knowledge, Learning, Development and Technology for All. WSKS 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 49. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04757-2_41

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