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Through an empirical study, this paper identifies a multitude of drivers that facilitate or hinder the implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) in business environments. Also, the purpose of this paper is to analyze its role in supply chain operations and assesses its impact on supplier capabilities and performances from supply chain perspectives.

Based on both a contingency theory and a resource‐based view (RBV) of the firm, the research develops a series of hypotheses regarding the use of ERP for strategic sourcing. A large‐scale survey of Korean manufacturers and their suppliers was conducted. A structural equation model was used for data analysis.

The firm's external environment (EE) has little influence on its decision to adopt and implement ERP. However, through the mediating role of an internal environment (IE), an EE still indirectly influences the ERP adoption and ERP implementation (ERPI) decision. Also, the paper found that ERP could enhance the ERP adopter's supplier capability (SCAP).

This study investigates the role of ERP in the supply chain and identifies important determinants influencing the ERP adoption and implementation decisions. Especially, this paper assesses the benefits of ERP from the ERP adopter's supply chain partner's standpoints.

The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of changing business control patterns that may be critical for firms, in order to manage effective enterprise information infrastructures in and through the Chinese market.

This paper presents a typology that shows four types of Chinese market penetration and development, in terms of level of foreign management control and level of foreign ownership control. The model is illustrated through case examples of US, Korean, and Chinese firms.

The paper shows that sustainable design and management of enterprise information infrastructures require continuous awareness of changes in corporate management and ownership control.

The transition paths among the four different types of global operations provide a rich basis for further theory development in the areas of the global supply chain practices beyond the Chinese market. Future research is needed to identify key variables that define the level of management and ownership control.

The typology and transitions paths presented in this paper may be a valuable road‐map for firms that are considering the Chinese market. In the course of implementing global supply chain strategies, foreign firms operating in China face complex business challenges, including multiple performance requirements, environmental regulations and cultural differences. In designing and managing effective enterprise information infrastructures, firms need to be conscious of both internal and external changes related to their management and ownership control. An understanding of changing business control patterns is critical if firms are to sustain effective enterprise information infrastructures in and through the Chinese market.

China is a potential global supply chain base. Global firms must consider carefully the extent of foreign management and ownership control with which they enter the Chinese market. These two dimensions are useful in analyzing the behavior and strategic options of global firms in this market.

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the implementation of ERP impacts both business strategy and organizational capabilities which in turn enhance firm performance. Specifically, the paper investigates the mediating effect of business strategy and organizational capabilities on the relationship between ERP implementation and firm performance.

Using secondary data collected from more than 400 firms, this study tests the relationships among these variables.

ERP implementation has a positive impact when a firm employs a prospector business strategy. A prospector business strategy enhances the firm's ability to achieve organizational capabilities and enables the firm to achieve higher levels of financial performance.

ERP implementation encourages and supports a prospector strategy. ERP not only supports cost control, but also supports new product development and introductions. The prospector firm seeks better information to support decision making, develop new and innovative products that drive revenue growth, and build efficient and effective operations that enhance return on assets.

This paper reports the mediating effect of business strategy and organizational capabilities on the relationship between ERP implementation and firm performance. This study uses cybernetic control, resource‐based view of firm, and dynamic capabilities theories to develop and integrate this research.

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a special issue on supply chains and the enterprise.

Introductory review and brief description of research papers in this issue.

To demonstrate the growing complexity and the multiple factors involved in structuring the enterprise effectively, references a paper by Iyer and Gottlieb that suggests an approach to enterprise architecture design. This integrates the internal and external environment, thus being highly relevant to supply chain issues.

Implies that the broad research framework for enterprise architecture is relevant to the study of supply chain issues, but leaves the reader to discover whether this is the case by perusing the research papers in this issue.

Links enterprise architecture to supply chain issues of importance to industry.

Provides a descriptive framework for linking papers in the issue to general supply chain issues.

The objective of the study is to identify the themes of “family friendly practices” and to perform a literature review. The research aims to identify the emerging trends in the area of “family friendly practices” by carrying out an exhaustive literature review.

The study synthesizes the literature between the years 2010 and 2019. First of all, 150 research articles were identified by keyword search, bibliography and citation search, out of which 57 research articles were selected on the basis of the most sound theoretical background and maximum literature contribution. The citation analysis method was performed on these studies in order to study the journals, authors by using Google Scholar, ResearchGate, the international database Science Citation Index and SCImago Journal Ranking.

The author citation count shows that the research topic is still getting recognition and the research in this area is increasing. The finding of the research is that the current research in family-friendly practices has focused mainly on seven topics: availability and usability of family-friendly policy, job satisfaction, organizational performance, supervisor or manager support, work–life conflict, employee turnover employee retention and women’s employment.

The study may provide valuable inputs to the HRD practitioners, managers, research scholars, to understand the recent trends in the field of family-friendly policy. As per the best knowledge of the author, this is the first study on family-friendly practices using citation analysis.