Examine the Relationship Between the Use of ERP Systems and Increase Opportunities for Entrepreneurship

Subject Areas : مدیریت

Mohammad Mehdi Movahedi ¹ , Mohammad Reza Lotfi ² , Sharzad Freydoni Khameneh ³

1 - استادیار دانشکده مدیریت، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد فیروزکوه، تهران، ایران
2 - استادیار دانشکده مهندسی صنایع، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد فیروزکوه، تهران، ایران
3 - کارشناسی ارشد مدیریت، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد فیروزکوه، تهران، ایران (عهده¬دار مکاتبات)

Received: 2014-05-17 Accepted : 2014-09-13 Published : 2015-02-20

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), entrepreneurial opportunities,

Abstract :

This study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between the use of ERP system (organization resources programming) and the increase in the organization entrepreneurship opportunities. With regards to an increasing trend of competition in global markets and competitive atmosphere in organizations and firms, entrepreneurship plays a key role in economic advancement as well as organization progression. There are many factors contributing to the increase in the entrepreneurship opportunities in the organization investigated in the present study by the use of ERP system due to the importance of organization information as well as the integrity of the information. In this study organizational entrepreneurship, information integration and information adjustment as three crucial indexes are investigated. The findings indicate that using ERP system leads to different module integrity from information perspective and the increase in information adaptation as well as an increase in entrepreneurship opportunities. The mean of information integrated variable is more than two other variables. The mean of information adaptive variable and the mean of entrepreneurship are standing in next positions. All three hypotheses have been accepted.