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Open Source Ecosystems: Diverse …, Jan 1, 2009

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems attract a high attention and open source software does... more Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems attract a high attention and open source software does it as well. The question is then if, and if so, when do open source ERP systems take off. The paper describes the status of open source ERP systems. Based on literature review of ERP system selection criteria based on Web of Science articles, it discusses reported reasons for choosing open source or proprietary ERP systems. Last but not least, the article presents some conclusions that could act as input for future research. The paper aims at building up a foundation for the basic question: What are the reasons for an organization to adopt open source ERP systems.

Scandinavian Information Systems …, Jan 1, 2010

Online Information …, Jan 1, 2010

Purpose -This paper aims to discuss a new tool for requirements gathering in the Web 2.0 era. It ... more Purpose -This paper aims to discuss a new tool for requirements gathering in the Web 2.0 era. It seeks to investigate the features that this kind of tool should have in order to be as widely applicable and useful as possible. Further, it aims to explore the extent to which business requirements for enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can be collected and discussed collaboratively in a worldwide community of business process experts. Design/methodology/approach -The paper is a combination of empirical research, hermeneutics and design research. Findings -The proposed Living Requirements Space (LRS) platform has the potential of becoming an international forum for collecting and discussing business requirements for ERP systems. Practical implications -The LRS platform will allow ERP developers, ERP systems implementers, and academics to better understand the evolution of business requirements for ERP systems. It will create a knowledge base of ERP business requirements, that is, a repository that guarantees open and unrestricted access to content. It will thus allow for more international ERP systems and far more comprehensive education on and understanding of business processes and ERP systems. Originality/value -LRS is an open access tool that allows for the gathering of ERP systems requirements in a vendor-and project-independent approach that is unbiased towards any geographic region.

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The paper offers a framework for partitioning articles in legal documents pertaining to value add... more The paper offers a framework for partitioning articles in legal documents pertaining to value added tax (VAT) into categories suitable for subsequent integration in computerized systems for automatically deriving VAT rates. The importance of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system supporting VAT is not that it is required by a definition but because information technology in general increasingly supports everyday activities, so users expect more even from ERP systems. As an extended example, the classification of all articles of the European Council directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax is presented. The classification of VAT articles is important in order to allow for easier VAT modeling for ERP systems. Better VAT modeling should eventually lead to lower cost of implementing changes in VAT legislature.

Information Systems …, Jan 1, 2011

Eastern Europe (CEE). Using absorptive capacity theory and data envelopment analysis, we view org... more Eastern Europe (CEE). Using absorptive capacity theory and data envelopment analysis, we view organisational transformation in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) absorption as an economic production process. Despite converging ERP saturation levels, our data identifies gaps in absorption levels and performance. Organisations in transition face greater challenges, engage more in phased ERP absorptions and expect higher levels of external support.

BLED 2009 Proceedings, Jan 1, 2009

This research report provides preliminary results in terms of ERP system selection criteria acros... more This research report provides preliminary results in terms of ERP system selection criteria across five European Union countries based on empirical studies. The paper provides a structured list of decision making criteria considered in ERP decisions and contrasts weights as well as achievement levels across countries. Research was guided by the Delone & McLean Information Systems (D&M IS) success model supported with views on project and vendor related aspects needed to capture the whole scope of the decision problem. The main considered dimensions were: quality; net benefits; project costs and time; and a vendor dimension. Especially the considered dimensions from the D&M IS success model, namely quality and net benefits varied across countries in terms of their initial weighting and satisfaction levels achieved after ERP implementation. However, a common global notion seems to be that quality and project related criteria are more important to the decision maker than potential benefits on the organisational or individual level.

Web 2.0, Jan 1, 2009

The current focus of knowledge management initiatives in organizations is one of identifying and ... more The current focus of knowledge management initiatives in organizations is one of identifying and sharing knowledge more widely. Companies explore new ways to cultivate and exploit knowledge sharing with customers, suppliers and partners (Mentzas et.al. 2007). They try to exploit a richer form of knowledge assets, including blogs, wikis, and social networks using Web 2.0 and focusing on the social, collaborative dimension of the Web. This chapter discusses new forms of managing knowledge according to the literature review and gives concrete examples of how these new forms of managing knowledge are used in enterprises. We conclude with a discussion of the role of Social Web and its associated tools for managing and sharing knowledge in companies and we discuss future associated challenges.

Online Information Review, Jan 1, 2009

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to discuss new approaches for managing personal knowledge i... more Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to discuss new approaches for managing personal knowledge in the Web 2.0 era. The paper questions whether Web 2.0 technologies (social software) are a real panacea for the challenges associated with the management of knowledge. Can Web 2.0 reconcile the conflicting interests of managing organisational knowledge with personal objectives? Does Web 2.0 enable a more effective way of sharing and managing knowledge at the personal level? Design/methodology/approach -Theoretically deductive with illustrative examples. Findings -Web 2.0 plays a multifaceted role for communicating, collaborating, sharing and managing knowledge. Web 2.0 enables a new model of personal knowledge management (PKM) that includes formal and informal communication, collaboration and social networking tools. This new PKM model facilitates interaction, collaboration and knowledge exchanges on the web and in organisations. Practical implications -Based on these findings, professionals and scholars will gain a better understanding of the potential role of Web 2.0 technologies for harnessing and managing personal knowledge. The paper provides concrete examples of how Web 2.0 tools are currently used in organisations. Originality/value -As Web 2.0 has become integrated in our day-to-day activities, there is a need to further understand the relationship between Web 2.0 and PKM. ). The concept has evolved over time and now involves organising personal information, making sense of information, negotiating meaning, creating new ideas, developing networks, collaborating, sharing and interacting . PKM environments integrate individual work environments and infrastructures to support joint creation, distribution, sharing and application of knowledge . Web 2.0 (O' Reilly, 2005) or the Social Web has introduced new concepts and tools that are able to operationalise a more social-centric vision. Online social networking systems, such as LinkedIn, MySpace and Facebook, allow people to manage their interaction with others on a massive scale. Blogs, microblogs (e.g. Twitter) and instant messaging tools (e.g. Skype) have provided new communication tools to interact more effectively with others in opened communities. Finally, radically new tools have emerged, such as Wikis (Wikipedia) and social bookmarking (Delicious), aimed at directly supporting PKM and fostering collective intelligence. This perspective has appeared so relevant and so promising that many specialists consider this approach to be the future of knowledge management, hoping that these new tools will contribute to realising the challenge of managing knowledge . Yet this perspective raises a number of questions related to the application of a vision that was born from the need to incorporate more of the social dimension and to better fit the individual needs of knowledge workers .

Journal of Enterprise Information …, Jan 1, 2008

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to further build up the knowledge about reasons for small a... more Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to further build up the knowledge about reasons for small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Design/methodology/approach -The paper presents and analyses findings in articles about proprietary ERPs and open source ERPs. In addition, a limited investigation of the distribution channel SourceForge for open source is made. Findings -The cost perspective seems to receive a high attention regarding adoption of open source ERPs. This can be questioned and the main conclusion is that costs seem to have a secondary role in adoption or non adoption of open source ERPs.