Title: Diffusion of ERP knowledge: a case of ERP resource centre in Taiwan

Authors: Wen-Hsien Tsai, Hsiao-Chiao Kuo

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan. ' Department of Business Administration, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan; Department of Marketing and Logistics, China University of Technology, HsinChu, Taiwan

Abstract: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are gradually being implemented by companies to achieve business goals and competitive advantages around the world. The demand for ERP professionals is rising dramatically; in light of this, the university alliances programme was executed by the SAP Company, which is the leading ERP vendor cooperating with National Central University (NCU) in Taiwan. Accordingly, ERP Resource Centre was established at NCU to extend ERP knowledge throughout Taiwan. The results show that the centre provides teaching activities, including cultivation of seed teachers, SAP students| club, ERP course popularisation and ERP book publishing. Also, support activities include academic conferences, ERP professional authentication and industry/academic collaboration. The experiences at NCU offer innovative and efficient methods that can be used to present the ERP curriculum and inspire future collaboration of the universities to contribute to the development of e-business courses.

Keywords: ERP; enterprise resource planning; resource centres; Taiwan; business goals; competitive advantage; university alliances programme; higher education; universities; National Central University; SAP; teaching; seed teachers; student clubs; course popularisation; book publishing; academic conferences; knowledge diffusion; authentication services; collaboration; curriculum development; innovation; e-business courses; electronic business; education management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIE.2010.033463

International Journal of Management in Education, 2010 Vol.4 No.3, pp.298 - 315

Published online: 02 Jun 2010 *

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