ERP-adoption within sme—challenging the existing body of knowledge with a recent case

Abstract

This paper analyses and harmonizes the existing body of literature concerning enterprise resource planning system (ERP) adoption in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). It conducts a single case study focused on challenging existing knowledge in a the rather scarce field of scientific research. We found the importance of success factors such as the “project champion”, proper “project/change management” and “strong partnership” as well as risk such as “inadequate training and instruction” or “low key-user involvement” supported. Additionally our case further unveiled additional previously not mentioned success factors/risk, such as the “flexibility” provided by Open Source Software, “poorly specified legacy applications and interfaces” and “inadequate user acceptance and end-to-end testing”