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Designing and Managing ERP Systems for Virtual Enterprise Strategy: A Conceptual Framework for Innovative Strategic Thinking

Designing and Managing ERP Systems for Virtual Enterprise Strategy: A Conceptual Framework for Innovative Strategic Thinking

Yi Wan, Ben Clegg
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 36
ISBN13: 9781466696884|ISBN10: 1466696885|EISBN13: 9781466696891
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9688-4.ch010
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Wan, Yi, and Ben Clegg. "Designing and Managing ERP Systems for Virtual Enterprise Strategy: A Conceptual Framework for Innovative Strategic Thinking." Strategic Management and Leadership for Systems Development in Virtual Spaces, edited by Christian Graham, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 160-195. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9688-4.ch010

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Wan, Y. & Clegg, B. (2016). Designing and Managing ERP Systems for Virtual Enterprise Strategy: A Conceptual Framework for Innovative Strategic Thinking. In C. Graham (Ed.), Strategic Management and Leadership for Systems Development in Virtual Spaces (pp. 160-195). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9688-4.ch010

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Wan, Yi, and Ben Clegg. "Designing and Managing ERP Systems for Virtual Enterprise Strategy: A Conceptual Framework for Innovative Strategic Thinking." In Strategic Management and Leadership for Systems Development in Virtual Spaces, edited by Christian Graham, 160-195. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9688-4.ch010

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Abstract

The business environment today is transforming towards a collaborative context compounded by multi-organizational cooperation and related information system infrastructures. This chapter aims to examine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems development and emerging practices in the management of multi-organizational enterprises and identify the circumstances under which the so-called ‘ERPIII' systems fit into the Virtual Enterprise paradigm; and vice versa. An empirical inductive study was conducted using case studies from successful companies in the UK and China. Data were collected through 48 semi-structured interviews and analyzed using the Grounded-Theory based Methodology (GTM) to derive a set of 29 tentative propositions which were then validated via a questionnaire survey to further propose a novel conceptual framework referred to as the ‘Dynamic Enterprise Reference Grid for ERP (DERG-ERP)'; which can be used for innovative decision-making about how ERP information systems and multi-organizational enterprises – particularly the Virtual Enterprise may be co-developed.

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