The Country-specific Organizational and Information Architecture of ERP Systems at Globalised Enterprises

• Authors: Bálint Molnár
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The competition on the market forces companies to adapt to the changing environment. Most recently, the economic and financial crisis has been accelerating the alteration of both business and IT models of enterprises. The forces of globalization and internationalization motivate the restructuring of business processes and consequently IT processes. To depict the changes in a unified framework, we need the concept of Enterprise Architecture as a theoretical approach that deals with various tiers, aspects and views of business processes and different layers of application, software and hardware systems. The paper outlines a wide-range theoretical background for analyzing the re-engineering and re-organization of ERP systems at international or transnational companies in the middle-sized EU member states. The research carried out up to now has unravelled the typical structural changes, the models for internal business networks and their modification that reflect the centralization, decentralization and hybrid approaches. Based on the results obtained recently, a future research program has been drawn up to deepen our understanding of the trends within the world of ERP systems.

Keywords

EN

Information System; ERP; Enterprise Resource Planning; Enterprise Architecture; Globalization; Centralization; Decentralization; Hybrid

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Business Systems Research Journal
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 39-50

Dates

published

2011-01-01

online

2012-09-19

Contributors

author

Bálint Molnár

• Faculty of Informatics, Information Systems Department, Eötvös University of Budapest, 1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétény 1/C

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10305-012-0015-z