A comparative study on critical success factors (CSFS) of ERP systems implementation among SMEs and large firms in developing countries

Abstract

The main goal of this research is to explore the difference between the critical success factors (CSFs) of enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementation in large firms with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries. Understanding this subject can help the implementers and users of ERP systems to notice the CSFs of their particular enterprises and to improve the success rate of these systems. The number of seventeen resources of studies evaluating the CSFs of ERP in SMEs and equal numbers of resources were used for the large enterprises. Following an evaluation of each category was conducted to elicit similarities and diversities in CSFs of these two groups. This research shows that there are some significant differences among the CSFs of ERP implementation in SMEs and large firm of developing countries. There was lacking of studies that have been focused on large firm and SMEs separately. The study explored the need for more research that is focused on CSFs studies with regard of distinct separated size of enterprises. By recognizing the differences of CSFs for large organization with SMEs, stakeholders can better develop and use suitable and useful implementation models / frameworks to improve the successful of ERP implementations in enterprises with any sizes. This paper appears to be one of the first studies to focus on comparing of CSFs in implementation of ERP in SMEs with large enterprise in developing countries.