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Factors Influencing ERP Implementation in Australia

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Digital Enterprise and Information Systems (DEIS 2011)

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This research investigates the Factors influencing Enterprise Resource Planning implementations in Australia. It is accomplished through five case studies conducted in five companies in Australia. Five senior managers were interviewed, each of whom was involved in ERP implementation in their respecting companies. Some of the findings of this research show that business factors are the most important cause in initiating ERP implementations within business organisations, followed with personnel and technology factors. The research has also indicated that the user engagement is very important to the success of ERP implementation, and it can have an effect on the success and failure of ERP projects.

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  1. Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

    Joseph Dagher & Joze Kuzic

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  1. London Metropolitan Business School, London Metropolitan Business University, Eden grove - EG4.06, N7 8EA, London, UK

    Ezendu Ariwa

  2. Information Systems Department, King Saud University, 11543, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Eyas El-Qawasmeh

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Dagher, J., Kuzic, J. (2011). Factors Influencing ERP Implementation in Australia. In: Ariwa, E., El-Qawasmeh, E. (eds) Digital Enterprise and Information Systems. DEIS 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 194. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22603-8_18

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