Abstract

With the rapid evolution of Information Technology (IT) applications and practices across the organiza tion, appropriate has become essential to an organizations success. As IT is associated with risk and value opportunities, a comprehensive, high-level system is required in each organization to minimise the associated risks and optimize value. An organization needs to be ready before implementing a complex enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. To achieve this aim, organization has to address two questions: (1) is the organization sufficiently ready to accept an ERP system and (2) what is the most cost effective plan for improving the readiness ,if the organization is to sufficiently ready? the role of information technology (IT) in knowledge management has always been a debatable topic in literature and practice. Despite existing documentation regarding the relationship between IT resource and knowledge management, limited information is available on the different types of IT resources describing this relationship. We integrate two research streams emerging in knowledge management and extend the literature on IT– knowledge management linkage by investigating the moderating role of resource commitment to invoke a contingent resource perspective.

Keywords: ERP, Information technology, governance resource, knowledge management capability, competitive advantage.

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