Implementing ERP Systems in China

This paper reports the findings of an exploratory study of R/3 users in China which has been conducted in spring 2000. The broad purpose of the study has been to identify crucial implementation process and context variables which warrant closer attention in the study of IT-enabled organizational change. While it turned out that ownership characteristics, which display a great variety in China and thus can be studied in relatively greater detail here than elsewhere, are strongly associated with implementation process characteristics, the association of ownership structures with implementation results is much less pronounced. In contrast, it emerged that project governance, specifically the role and decision making style of the steering committee, could b