TY  - JOUR
T1  - Taxonomy of ERP Integrations and Plant Performance
AU - Quttainah, Majdi Anwar 
JO  - International Business Management
VL  - 11
IS  - 1
SP  - 204
EP  - 214
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1993-5250
DO  - ibm.2017.204.214
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2017.204.214
KW  - Business poses
KW  -worldwide
KW  -story and aims
KW  -hypothesis
KW  -ERP integration
AB  - The complex nature of today’s business poses challenges for supply chain management which embraces dispersed supplier, production and distribution activities worldwide. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has risen to prominence as a result of its promise to integrate business processes from upstream to downstream. The past two decades, however have witnessed complications surrounding ERP implementation; its impact on firm performance has been reported as being inconclusive. This study argues that the extent of ERP integration is a missing link in the story and aims to investigate the hypothesis that the extent of ERP integration is positively associated with plant performance. Using a global sample of 641 manufacturers this research identifies four distinct ERP integration patterns, epitomized by different extents and directions of integration and finds a significant association between the broadest degree of ERP integration and plant performance improvement.
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