Journal of Enterprise Information Management: Volume 21 Issue 6

Partial abandonment as an exit strategy for troubled IT projects: Lessons from a small‐and‐medium enterprise

Gary Pan

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a stakeholder analysis to find out what factors contribute to partial abandonment and also to examine stakeholders' roles and role…

Communities of enterprise: developing regional SMEs in the knowledge economy

Cecily Mason, Tanya Castleman, Craig Parker

This paper proposes the concepts of communities of enterprise (CoEs) and virtual communities of enterprise (VCoEs) to describe business networking patterns in regional areas where…

Knowledge use in ICT investment decision making of SMEs

Torsti Rantapuska, Outi Ihanainen

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how managers use knowledge when making ICT investment decisions. ICT investments are complex processes and also have strategic implications…

IT consultants, salesmanship and the challenges of packaged software selection in SMEs

Debra Howcroft, Ben Light

This paper seeks to analyse the process of packaged software selection in a small organization, focussing particularly on the role of IT consultants as intermediaries in the…

Meeting the challenges of ICT adoption by micro‐enterprises

Peter Wolcott, Mehruz Kamal, Sajda Qureshi

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) open new opportunities for micro‐enterprises to improve their businesses. However, challenges to using ICTs impede these…

An investigation into software development process formation in software start‐ups

Gerry Coleman, Rory V. O'Connor

This paper reports on the results of an investigation into how the software development process is initially established within software product start‐ups.

ERP systems and open source: an initial review and some implications for SMEs

B. Johansson, F. Sudzina

The purpose of this paper is to further build up the knowledge about reasons for small and mid‐sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt open source enterprise resource planning (ERP…

Note from the publisher

Vicky Williams

Outstanding Paper Award