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ERP selection throu...
ERP selection through business relationships : adaptations or connections
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- Ekman, Peter, 1969- (author)
- Mälardalens högskola,Akademin för hållbar samhälls- och teknikutveckling,IEO,Mälardalen university
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- Thilenius, Peter, 1964- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Företagsekonomiska institutionen,Uppsala University, Sweden
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- 2011
- 2011
- English.
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In: International Journal of Entrepreneural Venturing. - 1742-5360. ; 3:1, s. 63-83
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- This article analyses how a generic form of information technology (IT), enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, can be selected by companies to enhance their business. ERP systems are a means of becoming more efficient through predefined standard functions called 'best practices'. Following the theory that markets are made up of business relationships in a network context, managerial advice would be to assess the vendor's existing business relationships. A company can harvest the inherent functions that an ERP system has from the vendor's prior interaction with other customers. This paper discusses how a company benefits from engaging in a new business relationship with an ERP vendor to become more competitive. However, this relationship is double-edged. A lesson is that the functions developed by the ERP vendor and the customer only offer a temporal competitive advantage, given that it can be used later in the ERP vendor's other connected business relationships.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- information technology; enterprise resource planning; ERP selection; best practice; business relationships; adaptation; connections; network infusion; case study; business networks
- Business studies
- Företagsekonomi
- Industrial Economics and Organisations
- industriell ekonomi och organisation
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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