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A Cross-cultural Analysis of ERP Implementation by US and Greek Companies

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ERP Systems and Organisational Change

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems play an important role in integrating information and processes across departmental boundaries (Reimers, 2003; Klaus et al., 2000; Sankar et al., 2005). Organisations, especially in developing countries, have adopted these information systems extensively to overcome the limitations of fragmented and incompatible stand-alone and legacy systems (Huang and Palvia, 2001; Sharma et al., 2002; Robey et al., 2002). Even though the inherent appeal of ERP systems has not gone unnoticed in developing countries (Xue et al., 2005), ERP is still in its early stages in countries in Asia/Pacific, Latin America and Eastern Europe (Huang and Palvia, 2001; Rajapakse and Seddon, 2005).

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  1. Seidman College of Business, Department of Management, Grand Valley State University, USA

    Jaideep Motwani & Asli Yagmur Akbulut

  2. Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens

    Maria Argyropoulou

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  1. Laboratoire Génie de Production (LGP), Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tarbes (ENIT), 47, Avenue d’Azereix, 65016, Tarbes Cedex, France

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  2. Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherche Appliquées en Sciences Sociales (LERASS), 114 route de Narbonne, 31077, Toulouse Cedex 4, France

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  3. Centre d’Etude et de Recherche Travail, Organisation, Pouvoir (CERTOP), Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, Maison de la Recherche 5, allées Antonio Machado, 31058, Toulouse Cedex 9, France

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Motwani, J., Akbulut, A.Y., Argyropoulou, M. (2008). A Cross-cultural Analysis of ERP Implementation by US and Greek Companies. In: Grabot, B., Mayère, A., Bazet, I. (eds) ERP Systems and Organisational Change. Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-183-1_11

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