TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding of ERP systems in Chinese SOEs
T2 - 7th International Conference on Digital Information Management, ICDIM 2012
AU - Chen, Si
AU - Peng, Guo Chao Alex
AU - Nunes, Miguel Baptista
AU - Mojtahed, Reza
AU - Zhou, Lihong
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Enterprises resource planning (ERP) systems are becoming more commonly applied by modern companies to manage and support the enterprise-wide business processes. This paper aimed to investigate the understanding of managers and staff on ERP systems in Chinese SOEs. The study took a case study approach and used chi-square tests to analyze the data derived from questionnaires. The analysis results show although the majority of respondents acknowledged the presence of ERP in the organization, they did not seem to be able to recognize the functional areas of the system that are used in practice. This apparent contradiction suggests that understanding of ERP systems by both managers and staff may not be fully developed. This lack of understanding may present risks for Chinese organizations and SOEs in general linked with both the maximization of ERP features and inadequate use of these features.
AB - Enterprises resource planning (ERP) systems are becoming more commonly applied by modern companies to manage and support the enterprise-wide business processes. This paper aimed to investigate the understanding of managers and staff on ERP systems in Chinese SOEs. The study took a case study approach and used chi-square tests to analyze the data derived from questionnaires. The analysis results show although the majority of respondents acknowledged the presence of ERP in the organization, they did not seem to be able to recognize the functional areas of the system that are used in practice. This apparent contradiction suggests that understanding of ERP systems by both managers and staff may not be fully developed. This lack of understanding may present risks for Chinese organizations and SOEs in general linked with both the maximization of ERP features and inadequate use of these features.
KW - Adoption of ERP
KW - ERP
KW - Enterprise Information Systems
KW - Understanding Information Sytems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84871572096&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICDIM.2012.6360107
DO - 10.1109/ICDIM.2012.6360107
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:84871572096
SN - 9781467324281
T3 - 7th International Conference on Digital Information Management, ICDIM 2012
SP - 280
EP - 285
BT - 7th International Conference on Digital Information Management, ICDIM 2012
Y2 - 22 August 2012 through 24 August 2012
ER -