@inbook{427ad566c1b948f4829b44e348c2fa3e,
title = "Designing and managing ERP systems for virtual enterprise strategy: a conceptual framework for innovative strategic thinking",
abstract = "The business environment today is transforming towards a collaborative context compounded by multi-organizational cooperation and related information system infrastructures. This chapter aims to examine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems development and emerging practices in the management of multi-organizational enterprises and identify the circumstances under which the so-called {\textquoteleft}ERPIII' systems fit into the Virtual Enterprise paradigm; and vice versa. An empirical inductive study was conducted using case studies from successful companies in the UK and China. Data were collected through 48 semi-structured interviews and analyzed using the Grounded-Theory based Methodology (GTM) to derive a set of 29 tentative propositions which were then validated via a questionnaire survey to further propose a novel conceptual framework referred to as the {\textquoteleft}Dynamic Enterprise Reference Grid for ERP (DERG-ERP)'; which can be used for innovative decision-making about how ERP information systems and multi-organizational enterprises – particularly the Virtual Enterprise may be co-developed.",
author = "Yi Wan and Ben Clegg",
year = "2016",
month = jan,
doi = "10.4018/978-1-4666-9688-4.ch010",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-4666-9688-4",
series = "Advances in IT Personnel and Project Management",
publisher = "IGI Global",
pages = "160--159",
editor = "Christian Graham",
booktitle = "Strategic management and leadership for systems development in virtual spaces",
address = "United States",
}