Οὐδε γέρων Ἀστραῖος ἀναίνετο: The Dancing God and the Mind of Zeus in Nonnos’ Dionysiaca

Nonnos’ Dionysiaca is designed as a revolutionary work in the epic genre, to evoke the eponymous god’s dancing energy. He has encoded a deep, pervasive structure in the poem that at once critiques the values implicit in Homeric epic and suggests that life is better lived in harmony with the rhythms of the apparently-chaotic forces in nature. Apparent chaos in Nonnos is bounded by patterns of anticipation, jarring macabre, and comically absurd resolution

HIERARCHICAL EXAMINATION OF SUCCESS FACTORS ACROSS ERP LIFE-CYCLE

This study investigates critical success factors (CSF) in implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. It reviews 94 such factors discussed in journals, conference proceedings and books, published for the most part in the last decade, covering the full lifecycle of ERP systems. Questionnaires exploring these 94 factors were submitted to hundreds of respondents, divided into five groups. The authors of the study hypothesize that the 94 success factors can be grouped, in overall and in each phase of ERP life cycle, under several extracted construct emerged from a statistical extraction method accompanied by business logic coming up with a term that best describes the content domain of the attributes that weight highly on relevant construct. This study presents an examination process of validity, principal component, similarity, reliability and multicollinearity analyses for hierarchical formations of success factors for the entire ERP life cycle and for each one of the six ERP life cycle phases (planning, implementation, stabilization, backlog, new module and major upgrade). This research exhibits for each ERP life cycle phase the main sub factors that explain the main themes of ERP implementation for the most. Special attention is given to: (a) earlier research on CSFs for ERP implementations, (b) hierarchical formation of parent and sub-factors in overall and in each phase of ERP life cycle and (c) representative meanings of critica

ACCEPTANCE OF ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING (ERP) SYSTEMS

The importance of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems has been increasingly recognized by organizations of all kinds. Nevertheless the implementation of such systems has been proved to be difficult, demanding many resources with long duration. The following comprehensive research is based the examination of ten known information systems models: (1) technology acceptance model (TAM), (2) task technology fit model (TTF) , (3) a model combining the technology acceptance model and the task technology fit model, (4) Delone and Mclean IS success model, (5) computer self efficacy model (CSE), (6) Diffusion of Innovation model (DOI), (7) a model combining the technology acceptance model, task technology fit model and computer self efficacy model, (8) unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT), (9) conceptual ERP model, (10) TIMES model. This research aims to: (1) review the literature on information systems acceptance models generated by two different perspectives: individual (e.g. Technology acceptance model) and non individual (e.g. Task Technology Fit) characteristics, (2) empirically compare ten models and their extensions in the field of ERP systems, (3) examine the relationships among fundamental constructors (independent and dependant variables) and seek for patterns in order to understand the relationship between them, (4) examine the affect of moderators on these relationships such as: age, gender, education, experience, technological or business orientation, level of management and voluntariness of use, (5) develop, formulate and empirically examine a model that integrates elements across the ten models and best describes the acceptance of enterprise resource planning systems