Enterprise systems in transition economies: research landscape and framework for socioeconomic development

ABSTRACT

Due to the unique business, legal, and cultural environments of transition economies, that is countries that have recently moved or are in the process of moving from a centrally planned economy to a market-driven system, research findings from developed economies do not always apply and different approaches are needed. In this study, we review and analyze 84 papers on enterprise systems in transition economies published in the years 2004–2016. Based on the analysis of themes and issues investigated, reported results, and trends, we identify gaps in the existing literature leading to multiple promising directions for future research. Furthermore, based on our interpretation of the findings and an existing general framework for information and communication technology supported socioeconomic development, we provide a more specific, conceptual framework that integrates enterprise systems with socioeconomic development.

KEYWORDS:

• Enterprise systems
• ERP
• transition economy
• literature review
• conceptual framework
• socioeconomic development

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes on contributors

Narcyz Roztocki is professor in the School of Business at the State University of New York at New Paltz, USA and professor in the Department of Accounting at Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland. His research interests include IS/IT investment evaluation, IS/IT productivity, IS/IT investments in transition/emerging economies, technology project management, and e-commerce. He has published in numerous journals including European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information System, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, and in proceedings of AMCIS, DSI, ECIS, ECITE, and HICSS, among many others. He is an associate editor of the journal Information Technology for Development and the journal Electronic Commerce Research and Applications as well as a senior editor for the journal Information Systems Management.

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 Ph.D. in economics from CUE. He also holds an M.B.A. from the School of Entrepreneurship and Management at CUE in association with the University of Teeside, UK. He has experience in industry as an ERP consultant, system analyst, and software developer. His research interests include enterprise systems adoption, ICT for development, and inter-organizational integration. 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. He is currently member of the Editorial Board of AIS Transactions on Enterprise Systems, Information Technology for Development, and Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems. He has acted as Program/Organizational Committee member in numerous international conferences, including AMCIS, ECIME, EMCIS, EuroSymposium, and ICTM.

Heinz Roland Weistroffer is professor of Information Systems in the School of Business at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, USA. His research interests include information technology for development, systems analysis and design, and computer assisted decision-making. He has published in Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information Technology for Development, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Frontiers, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, and European Journal of Operational Research among many other journals, as well as in numerous conference proceedings such as AMCIS, HICCS, and ECIS. He is an associate editor of the journal Information Technology for Development.

ORCID

Narcyz Roztocki http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0324-9429

Piotr Soja http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7274-3327

Heinz Roland Weistroffer http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3745-5143

Additional information

Funding

This research has been financed in part by the funds granted to the Faculty of Management, Cracow University of Economics, Krakow, Poland, within the subsidy for maintaining research potential.