Nilesh Saraf

TL;DR: This model explains how top management mediates the impact of external institutional pressures on the degree of usage of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and finds that normative pressures directly affect ERP usage.

TL;DR: It is found that two types of relational assets are significantly associated with business performance---knowledge sharing with channel partners and process coupling with customers---pointing to underlying mechanisms that differentially leverage resources of different types of channel partners.

TL;DR: This study combines the two perspectives and subscribes to the view that organisations’ learning capability moderates their acquiescence to institutional pressures, and anchors organisational learning capability to the concept of absorptive capacity, and proposes that its two dimensions – potential absorptive Capacity (PACAP) and realised absorptivecapacity (RACAP) – affect enterprise systems assimilation through different pathways.

TL;DR: This research proposes that the relative structural position acquired by a firm in its alliance network is a reasonable proxy for its standards dominance and is an indicator of its performance and develops a measure of relative firm prominence specifically for the business software network where benefits of alliances may accrue through indirect connections even if attenuated.

TL;DR: It is argued that the effects of rivalry in crowded markets are counteracted by a different force, in the form of the economics of demand externalities, which suggests that ESS vendors might, in fact, benefit from competing in many crowded markets.