TECHNOLOGICAL CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR IN ERP IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR IN SAUDI ARABIA

Authors

  • Mohamed Bekhet Azman Hashim International Business School, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor Bahru, MALAYSIA
  • Saudah Sofian Azman Hashim International Business School, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor Bahru, MALAYSIA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v6.i7.2018.1311

Keywords:

ERP, CSF, Implementation Success, TOE

Abstract [English]

An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation is a complex information technology project that integrates organization-wide operations. Prior surveys have reported perceptions about factors which are critical to ERP implementation success. There are only a few prior researches that have empirically tested the ERP implementation success factors in Saudi Arabia in both public and private organizations. This paper reports the result of literature review on critical success factor (CSF) for ERP implementations. It has been found that project champions can to be added to Technological dimension of the Technological, Organizational and Environmental (TOE) theory.

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2018-07-31

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Bekhet, M., & Sofian, S. (2018). TECHNOLOGICAL CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR IN ERP IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR IN SAUDI ARABIA. International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH, 6(7), 306–316. https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v6.i7.2018.1311