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Role of Organizational Factors in Erp System Implementation
Association for Information Systems

AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
PACIS 2009 Proceedings Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS)

8-3-2009

ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS IN ERP SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATIONS
Madhavi Latha Nandi
Xavier Institute of Management, madhavinandi@yahoo.co.in

Gopal Krishna Nayak
Xavier Institute of Management, gopal@ximb.ac.in

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Nandi, Madhavi Latha and Nayak, Gopal Krishna, "ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS IN ERP SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATIONS" (2009). PACIS 2009 Proceedings. Paper 109. http://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2009/109

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ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS IN ERP SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATIONS

Madhavi Latha Nandi Xavier Institute of Management, Xavier Square, Bhubaneswar 751013, Orissa, India madhavinandi@gmail.com Gopal Krishna Nayak Xavier Institute of Management, Xavier Square, Bhubaneswar 751013, Orissa, India gopal@ximb.ac.in

Abstract
With organizations increasingly opting to implement ERP system packages, there is an increasing need to understand what factors facilitate or inhibit the implementation process. In doing so, the paper views the implementation from user-based innovation process perspective and develops models to predict the influence of various organizational factors on the effort associated with various stages of the innovation process. The organizational factors being considered for the study include structural factors that is, centralization, formalization, and specialization, and contextual factors that is, organizational absorptive capacity and organizational publicness. Keywords: ERP system implementation, Public sector, Innovation process, Absorptive capacity,



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