The Effects of ERP Flexibility and National Cultures on Innovation performance at the post-ERP installation ages: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study between China and the United States

摘要

The increasing of market competition and the fast moving towards globalization requirecompanies to improve their competitive advantages through both incremental and radicalinnovations. Apple Inc. is a good example to illustrate the importance of innovation in acompany to achieve success. Many researches have indicates that the installation of ERP systemaffects the innovation performance and is an effective ways to improve the companies?competitive advantages.However, at the current post-ERP installation ages (For instance, Oracle has installed databasesin nearly every one of the world?s top 500 companies), how to efficiently and effectively use andadjust ERP systems on the content of implementation and their effects on innovationperformance are studied in this research. Furthermore, with the fast-growing of globalization, thecultures differences are playing more important roles in the relationship between IT system andcompany performances. Thus, in this study we also discuss the significant effects of nationalculture differences.With the construction models and data collection from both China and USA, this paper not onlyprovides the theoretical implementation for current literature, but also offers the practicalapplications for the decision makers at the multinational and international companies, who needthe guidance to manage their groups and business located within different cultures.