Carlos Ferran

Carlos Ferran is an assistant professor of management information systems at The Pennsylvania State University in Great Valley. He received his DBA in MIS from Boston University, a graduate degree in MIS from Universidad Central de Venezuela, a Cum Laude Master in Finance, and a licentiate in management sciences (BS) from Universidad Metropolitana. Dr. Ferran has been a visiting professor at IESA (Venezuela), INALDE (Colombia), and IAE (Argentina). He worked in the software industry for 10 years, acted as an IT/IS consultant for more than 10 years, and held the position of CIO for an important financial group in Venezuela. Dr. Ferran has written two books and many academic articles. His research interests span technology-mediated communication (particularly videoconferencing), accounting information systems, knowledge management, and the digital divide. He serves on the editorial board of several academic journals and is currently the editor of the AIS journal Revista de la Asociación de Sistemas de Información para Latinoamérica y el Caribe.

Publications

The Future of ERP and Enterprise Resource Management Systems
The Future of ERP and Enterprise Resource Management Systems
Carlos Ferran, Ricardo Salim. © 2011. 20 pages.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems integrate into one single system the control and accounting of all the enterprise resources. Just like the previous systems (material...
Enterprise Resource Planning for Global Economies: Managerial Issues and Challenges
Enterprise Resource Planning for Global Economies: Managerial Issues and Challenges
Carlos Ferran, Ricardo Salim. © 2008. 420 pages.
Local functional systems that create inefficient islands of information are being replaced by expensive enterprise-wide applications that unify the functional areas; however...
From Ledgers to ERP
From Ledgers to ERP
Ricardo Salim, Carlos Ferran. © 2008. 22 pages.
The chapter narrates the history of the accounting needs of individuals and organizations and explains their successive technological solutions, up to today’s ERPs. The ledger...
The Future of ERP and Enterprise Resource Management Systems
The Future of ERP and Enterprise Resource Management Systems
Carlos Ferran, Ricardo Salim. © 2008. 21 pages.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems integrate into one single system the control and accounting of all the enterprise resources. Just like the previous systems (material...
Electronic Business in Developing Countries: The Digitalization of Bad Practices
Electronic Business in Developing Countries: The Digitalization of Bad Practices
Carlos Ferran. © 2008. 14 pages.
This chapter uses information theory to study the effect of the Internet and e-business over the digital divide. It develops a framework that defines four types of information...
The Current Bottleneck of Knowledge Management and How Information Technology can be Successfully Used to Reduce it
The Current Bottleneck of Knowledge Management and How Information Technology can be Successfully Used to Reduce it
Ricardo Salim, Carlos Ferran. © 2008. 27 pages.
Knowledge is generated and propogated by cultural selection, a process that—like it genetic counterpart, natural selection—consumes much time and resources in contrasting every...
Electronic Business in Developing Countries: The Digitalization of Bad Practices
Electronic Business in Developing Countries: The Digitalization of Bad Practices
Carlos Ferran, Ricardo Salim. © 2005. 35 pages.
This chapter uses information theory to study the effect of the Internet and e-business over the digital divide. It develops a framework that defines four types of information...