ERP Solution Acceptance by Students

ERP acceptance by its users in companies has been researched by several authors while ERP acceptance by students within study programmes has not been researched so often. For teachers should be important to know which factors have influence on student ERP acceptance. Our study researches student acceptance of ERP solutions while they are exposed to ERP solution and they are involved in ERP actual use. Our research is based on TAM which provides a basis for tracing impact of external factors on internal beliefs (perceived usefulness – PU and perceived ease of use – PEOU), attitudes (AT), intentions (behavioural intention – BI) and actual use. Research model includes additional external factors such as: experience with computer, computer self-efficiency, personal innovativeness toward IT, computer anxiety, user manuals (help), system quality, social influence (environment), training and education etc. Research was conduct within a group of 121 students after short interaction with Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP solution. Results show that most important external factors for student ERP acceptance are: individual benefits, training and education on ERP system and quality of ERP system

Enterprise values and enterprise policy interdependence

Enterprise governance results in enterprise policy, which is influenced by enterprise values. The aim of our research was to identify how enterprise values influence enterprise policy innovation. The study focuses on four value factors and their relationships as well as on their influence on enterprise policy innovation. The results show that enterprises should pay attention to the chain of value factors identified in our study (V3!V2!V4!V1). Namely, factors‘extremes of the values of enterprise’s key stakeholders’(V3), ‘analysis of the values of enterprise’s key stakeholders’ (V2), and‘importance of the examination of the values of enterprise’s key stakeholders’(V4) have an indirect impact on factor‘enterprise policy innovation (EPI) via factor‘ values of enterprise’s key stakeholders’(V1), which influences the factor ‘enterprise policy innovation’ (EPI) directly. The identified chain of value factors has a strong effect on factor‘enterprise policy innovation’(EPI) via factor‘values of enterprise’s key stakeholders’(V1). The implications happen via enterprise’s management and the basic-realisation process

Komparativna analiza kritičnih dejavnikov pri uvajanju elektronskega poslovanja

The implementation projects of e-business systems are strategic and complex projects. They require substantial resources, and yet, the success is not guaranteed. Organizations must try to minimize risks by focusing on critical success factors (CSFs) of e-business implementation.We have researched different viewpoints of e-business implementation CSFs. The paper presents an overview of some of existing e-business implementation business models and analyses research about e-business implementation CSFs. Identified CSFs are discussed and linked to the e-business implementation process. Key words: E-business, CSFs, e- business implementation, e-transformationProjekti uvajanja sistemov e-poslovanja so strateški in kompleksi projekti. Tovrstni projekti zahtevajo precejšnje resurse, pa vendar njihova uspešnost ni zagotovljena. Organizacije morajo minimizirati tveganja s tem, da se osredotočijo na kritične dejavnike uspeha uvajanja e-poslovanja. V prispevku smo raziskali različne vidike kritičnih dejavnikov uspeha uvajanja e-poslovanja. Predstavljamo pregled nekaterih modelov uvajanja e-poslovanja in raziskav s področja kritičnih dejavnikov uspeha uvajanja e-poslovanja. Prepoznani kritični dejavniki uspeha so predstavljeni, opisane pa so tudi povezave dejavnikov s procesom uvajanja e-poslovanja. Ključne besede: E-poslovanje, kritični dejavniki uspeha, uvajanje e-poslovanja, e-preoblikovanj

TAM-based external factors related to ERP solutions acceptance in organizations

To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of ERP solutions use, understanding of critical success factors of ERP solutions assimilation in organizations is crucial. The technology acceptance model (TAM) proposed by Davis (1989) has been the most widely used model for researching user acceptance and usage of IT/IS. The purpose of this paper is to extend the original TAM with groups of external factors which impact actual ERP system use. First, we focus on ERP system use in companies’ maturity phase. Second, we expose and examine three groups of external factors which influence ERP usage. The model was empirically tested using data collected from a survey of ERP users in 44 organizations. Survey data have been collected from ERP users who have been exposed to an ERP system which has operated for more than one year. The proposed research model was analyzed using the PLS approach

Development of Cyber Security Platform for Experiential Learning

The cyber security education market has grown-up exponentially, with a CAGR of 13.9 % as reported by Data Intelo. The report published by the World Economic Fo- rum 2023 indicates a shortfall of 2.27 million cyber security experts in 2021 across different roles and hence manifest that Skill-based cyber security education is the need of the hour. Cybersecurity as a field has evolved as a multi-discipline, multi-stakeholder and multi-role discipline. Therefore, the need to address formal education with an outcome-based philosophy is imperative to address for a wider audience with varied past training in their formal education. With the Internet becoming an essential part of human life, providing security of data passed over the Internet is becoming increasingly crucial. Therefore, the role in the organization which is quite demanding is to have expertise in handling and configuring network security, a subdomain of cyber security as a priority area. The rapid increase in the network attack landscape is constantly demanding monitoring of network attacks as well as a need to promote collaborative R&D and education in the sphere of cyber security due to a shortage of skilled resources. Platform-based education is a potential direction to achieve the objective and address the skill gap required in cyber security. The present research proposes a comprehensive web-based platform that can be used to communicate, collaborate and practice various use cases in the domain of network intrusion detection tools using machine learning algorithms and to evaluate user experience. The proposed platform CySecLearn is a collection of various functionalities and features that ensures experiential learning, will help the learner to develop critical thinking and expertise in network security and promote digital literacy in the domain of cyber security

FACTORS WHICH HAVE FATAL INFLUENCE ON ERP IMPLEMENTATION ON SLOVENIAN ORGANIZATIONS

A lot of ERP implementations are failure, because organizations which bought ERP systems thought that this was all what they should do. But failure cases of ERP implementation showed, that organizations have to do extensive work on implementation. Because of that, organizations have to create conditions, in which they can implement chosen solution in expected time, scope and evaluated costs. That means that organizations should be aware of what most critical factors for success (CSF) in ERP implementations are. The high failure rate of ERP implementations call for better understanding of critical success factors (CSFs). In the paper we will research the CSFs in ERP implementation by studying published prior research on the field of ERP implementation. We will build a model of CSFs for ERP implementation, discuss in depth some most important factors and present preliminary results of importance CSFs of ERP implementation in Slovenian organizations

Innovation of enterprise vision toward social responsibility

Businesses need new bases and methods taking in account new values, culture, ethics, and norms (VCEN) of humans, leading both humans and businesses to their own requisite holism. This covers also enterprise governance and management and their predisposition to (responsible) enterprise vision (and resulting enterprise policy) we studied. Thus we are researching the formation and development of enterprise vision, the period and wholeness of which are relative. In our discussion we originated in different definitions of vision and we showed a possible development path for it, in order to direct vision towards social responsibility (SR) in enterprise behaviour

Integracija i primjena interdisciplinarnoga znanja iz područja ekonomije i prostorne znanosti

This research arises from the importance of integrating knowledge of economic/business and spatial sciences for graduates who must think and act in interdisciplinary contexts. The systematic literature review revealed that this interdisciplinary field is richly present in original scientific research, and is undoubtedly topical and worthy of research efforts. The main objective of this paper is to analyze important factors that contribute to the attitudes of students towards interdisciplinary knowledge, and factors that shape their intentions to use and integrate this knowledge in the future. The conceptual model formed was tested using structural equation modeling (SEM). Research results confirm the importance of integrating economic/business and spatial sciences’ knowledge, for graduates. As presented in the paper, results of the study have important implications for higher education institutions, for reform and update of their study programs, as well as for educators in the field of spatial sciences and economic/business sciences, in research and in education.Ovo je istraživanje nastalo zbog važnosti integracije znanja iz područja ekonomskih i prostornih znanosti za studente koji moraju razmišljati i djelovati u interdisciplinarnim kontekstima. Sustavni pregled literature pokazao je da je ovo interdisciplinarno područje u velikoj mjeri prisutno u izvornim znanstvenim istraživanjima te je bez svake sumnje aktualno i vrijedno istraživanja. Glavni je cilj ovoga rada analizirati važne čimbenike koji doprinose izgradnji stavova studenata prema interdisciplinarnom znanju, kao i čimbenike koji utječu na njihove namjere da se u budućnosti koriste takvim znanjima i i integriraju ih. Izrađeni konceptualni model testiran je s pomoću modeliranja strukturnih jednadžbi (SEM). Rezultati istraživanja potvrđuju da je integracija znanja iz područja ekonomije i prostornih znanosti važna za studente. Kako je prikazano u radu, rezultati istraživanja imaju važne implikacije za institucije visokoga obrazovanja, za reformu i nadogradnju njihovih studijskih programa te za obrazovne djelatnike koji se bave područjima ekonomije i prostorne znanosti, kako u istraživanjima, tako i u obrazovanju

Technology Acceptance Model Based Study of Students’ Attitudes Toward Use of Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions are the most frequently used software tool in companies in all industries. Therefore, the labour market requires the knowledge and skills for usage of ERP solutions from graduates – future employees. The main objective of our paper is therefore the identification of important factors that contribute to the acceptance of ERP solutions by students in economics and business and that shape their intentions to use this knowledge in the future. The model of our research is based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), extended by identified important multidimensional external factors that refer to (1) students’ personal characteristics and information literacy, (2) perceived system and technological characteristics of ERP solutions and (3) perceived support within the study process. Research results revealed that several dimensions of the three multidimensonal factors play an important role in shaping the attitudes towards acceptance of ERP solutions by students