Work, organisation and Enterprise Resource Planning systems: an alternative research agenda

Abstract

This paper reviews literature that examines the design, implementation and use of Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs). It finds that most of this literature is managerialist in orientation, and concerned with the impact of ERPs in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and business performance. The paper seeks to provide an alternative research agenda, one that emphasises work- and organisation-based approaches to the study of the implementation and use of ERPs. © 2006 The Authors; Journal compilation © 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.