Comparing Benefits from Enterprise System Adoption in Transition and Developed Economies: An Ontology-based Approach

ICT in Transition Economies: Narrowing the Research Gap to Developed Countries

“…Many ICT investments are conducted with the purpose of shortterm operational improvements rather than long-term strategic considerations (Roztocki & Weistroffer, 2008). More recently, it appears that focus of ICT investment in transition economies is shifting from operational to strategic issues; however, this shift is not very radical and a reasonably wide gap still exists between transition and developed economies in this respect (Soja & Paliwoda-Pękosz, 2013). .…”

A stakeholder analysis of barriers to enterprise system adoption: the case of a transition economy

“…The current study also introduces the barrier perspective, which is not present in [74], and illustrates how ES adoption participants experience various barriers during the implementation process. In a similar manner, the current study introduces a new understanding to the notion of ES adoption benefits, researched in [67] on the basis of the opinions of internal stakeholders. First, the current study introduces the perspective of external stakeholders.…”

“…In particular, it may be connected with the heritage of the past communist epoch which resulted in peoples' negative attitudes towards authority and generally a low level of trust in both interpersonal and interinstitutional relationships [34]. In general, people-related issues connected with knowledge, education, skills and attitudes appear critical in ES adoptions in transition economies [40,61,67]. Nevertheless, we should bear in mind that, as illustrated in a study by Janson et al [29], successful companies in transition economies are able to overcome the heritage of the socialist past and may foster the development of a learning organization.…”

“…An interesting group of studies includes research papers that are based on data gathered among various stakeholders, both ES adopters and providers, and perform at least a general stakeholder analysis. Such studies include [62] which delivers a general stakeholder-related discussion and [66,67] that limit their stakeholder perspective to tables displaying data breakdown by respondent organizational position and role in the implementation project. Finally, [64] performs an extensive stakeholder analysis on the basis of data gathered among both ES adopters and providers.…”

“…The study proposes that if such a deviation is caused by the changing environment, provided that the adjustment guaranteed the achievement of organizational and/or business goals, the project would still be considered a success. Finally, the study [67], building on the opinions of ES adopters from Poland, employed an ontology-based framework to investigate the benefits from ES adoption in transition economies. In consequence, the study revealed eight main classes of ES adoption benefits and compared them with prior taxonomies elaborated in developed economies.…”