Title: A study of the selection criteria for enterprise resource planning systems

Authors: Wen-Hsien Tsai, Pei-Ling Lee, Shu-Ping Chen, Wei Hsu, Thomas W. Lin

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, National Central University, Jhongli, Taoyuan 320, Taiwan. ' Department of Business Administration, National Central University, Jhongli, Taoyuan 320, Taiwan. ' Department of Business Administration, National Central University, Jhongli, Taoyuan 320, Taiwan. ' Department of Business Administration, National Central University, Jhongli, Taoyuan 320, Taiwan. ' Leventhal School of Accounting, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA

Abstract: This study draws on the findings of two cross-sectional surveys of the top 5,000 largest corporations in Taiwan, undertaken in 2003 and 2006. It presents the organisations| criteria for selecting enterprise resource planning (ERP) software package and its supplier. The different selection criteria for ERP software package and its supplier between the two investigative years are discussed. From the results, we also discovered that a number of selection criteria are highly related to a domestic or international ERP package|s utilisation and ERP supplier|s adoption.

Keywords: ERP selection; enterprise resource planning; selection criteria; supplier selection; Taiwan.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBSR.2009.027200

International Journal of Business and Systems Research, 2009 Vol.3 No.4, pp.456 - 480

Published online: 17 Jul 2009 *

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