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Original Articles

Determinants of Enterprise System Adoption Across the System Lifecycle: Exploring the Role of Economic Development

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Abstract

The authors studied enterprise systems adoption in transition and less-developed economies within the European Union in search of determinants (critical success factors and barriers) across the system lifecycle. They found 14 determinants drawing from interviews with practitioners whose experience exceeds 280 projects. The authors compared their data with prior results from well-developed countries and concluded that determinants and their criticality across the lifecycle depend on the level of economic development. The authors discussed implications and provided recommendations.

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Piotr Soja

Piotr Soja is associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Cracow University of Economics (CUE), Poland. He holds a postdoctoral degree (habilitation) and PhD in economics from CUE. He also holds an MBA from the School of Entrepreneurship and Management at CUE in association with the University of Teeside, UK. Piotr has published in Enterprise Information Systems, Industrial Management & Data Systems, Information Systems Management, and Information Technology for Development, among many other journals, as well as in numerous conference proceedings such as AMCIS, HICSS, ICEIS, and ISD.

Marinos Themistocleous

Marinos Themistocleous is an associate professor at the Department of Digital Systems at University of Piraeus, Greece. Before joining University of Piraeus, he worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer at Brunel University, London, UK. He has close relationships with industry and has worked as a consultant for the Greek Ministry of Finance, the Greek Standardization body, the Greek Federation of SMEs, the Bank of Greece, ORACLE, etc. He has authored several teaching textbooks, internationally refereed journal articles and conference articles and has received many citations and awards of excellence. His research has attracted funding from various funding bodies.

Paulo Rupino da Cunha

Paulo Rupino da Cunha is assistant professor of information systems and the head of the IS Group at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is director of the Informatics and Systems Lab of Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN), a non-profit association for Innovation and Technology Transfer. Paulo holds a PhD in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra. He has been the adjunct associate teaching professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, USA, from May 2009 to Dec 2012, and Visiting Associate at Brunel University, UK, from 2008 to 2010.

Miguel Mira da Silva

Miguel Mira da Silva is a professor of Information Systems in the University of Lisbon and a director at the INOV research institute where he leads the “Digital Services Innovation” group. He graduated (1989) and received his master’s degree (1993) in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon, his PhD (1997) in computing science from the University of Glasgow, and more recently the “Sloan Fellowship” master in management (2005) from the London Business School. He has published more than 100 research papers in international conferences and journals, as well as four teaching books in Portuguese. Currently, he is interested in IT governance, services innovation, and entrepreneurship.

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