Impact of top management team on firm performance in small and medium-sized enterprises adopting commercial open-source enterprise resource planning

Open source ERP business model framework

“…FOS-ERP in general has become a viable alternative [4]. Cereola et al [5] MySQL is an open source database management system. Sun Microsystems have long viewed OSS as a means to develop longrange market strength [8], although this effort was insufficient to avoid short-term failure.…”

Journey of ERP from Manufacturing to Education Industry

“…Amoako-Gyampah (2004) describes the managers of superficial power in the ERP project, who compose extreme leadership skills to keep the project ongoing, and also conduct regular meetings to keep a proper flow of information in the entire team. Cereola, Wier, & Strand, (2012) have worked on SME segment and say that IT knowledge, absorptive capacity and experience play a vital role in adoption of IS in SME to assimilate open source system. The assimilation of open source system brings a huge performance of ERP system.…”

Enhancing organisational performance through information technology: an organisational and social strategic context

“…It helps business executives to better understand the strategic value of IT for the business organization (Bassellier, Benbasat, & Reich, 2003;Boynton et al, 1994;Cereola et al, 2013). The business executives' knowledge of IT also increases the joint participation of IT and business executives in the organizational strategic planning processes, which improve the strategic alignment (Kearns & Sabherwal, 2007).…”

“…• The influence of SDK on the assimilation and use of IT (Armstrong & Sambamurthy, 1999;Boynton, Zmud, & Jacobs, 1994;Cereola et al, 2013). …”

“…The IT assimilation by the organization appears to be improved by the strong interaction between IT executives and business executives (Armstrong & Sambamurthy, 1999;Cereola, Wier, & Norman, 2013). The IT-business relationships tend to enhance the social and organizational cultural alignment.…”