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Impediments to Enterprise System Implementation over the System Lifecycle: Contrasting Transition and Developed Economies
Author(s) -
Soja Piotr,
PaliwodaPękosz Grażyna
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the electronic journal of information systems in developing countries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.41
H-Index - 18
ISSN - 1681-4835
DOI - 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2013.tb00403.x
Subject(s) - system lifecycle , business , transition (genetics) , business cycle , industrial organization , process management , economy , product lifecycle , economics , marketing , macroeconomics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene , new product development
The main goal of this study is to investigate similarities and differences between impediments to enterprise system (ES) implementation in transition and developed economies. The adopted research approach incorporates the system lifecycle and seeks to examine how the difficulties change across the lifecycle phases. The research builds on the opinions of ES practitioners from Poland, a transition economy from Central and Eastern Europe. The main findings illustrate that difficulties experienced by ES adoptions in developed economies seem to concentrate on the project phase where implementation activities are carried out whereas in Polish companies problems tend to span through all the lifecycle phases. The results also suggest that in transition economies practitioners have to deal mostly with system‐related issues across the whole lifecycle. In developed economies, on the contrary, the shift from system‐related to business‐related problems throughout the system lifecycle is observed.