The advances of modern computer-based innovation have been mind-bogglingly fast and have changed both business and everyday life around the world. But change has not come evenly. The very pace of technological advancement has tended to hide some fundamental problems that have existed from the...

For years, firms have been investing millions of dollars in information systems (IS) to gain operational and strategic benefits. However, in most cases these expected benefits have not been realized because the software development community has been plagued with the delivery of low quality and...

The successful implementation and deployment of enterprise resource planning hinges on an organization's understanding of the complex and challenging issues involved in the process. And, the further development of information and communication technologies are presenting more challenges to...

The aim of this study is to investigate how information technology (IT) investment supports and relates to SCG and its conceptions (transactional and relational. The authors conducted exploratory case studies in two large Brazilian companies and two major suppliers, interviewing top supply chain...