IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijnvor/v4y2007i4p402-412.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The impact of board interlocks on the diffusion of enterprise resource planning systems

Author

Listed:
  • Robert Pellerin
  • Pierre-Majorique Leger
  • Gilbert Babin

Abstract

This paper is intended to investigate the extent to which board interlocks contribute to the diffusion of ERP technologies in an interlocked network. Controlling for size, we investigate the effect of two network characteristics on the adoption decision of enterprise systems by organisations: the exposure of a firm to other adopters and the centrality of a firm within an interlocked network. In order to test our models, we gathered board members data of the top 1000 Canadian public firms and recorded adoption decisions within this network through the analysis of ERP announcements using keywords co-location. Our research findings suggest evidence of the diffusion of ERP technologies in interlocked networks.

Suggested Citation

  • Robert Pellerin & Pierre-Majorique Leger & Gilbert Babin, 2007. "The impact of board interlocks on the diffusion of enterprise resource planning systems," International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 4(4), pages 402-412.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijnvor:v:4:y:2007:i:4:p:402-412
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=15722
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijnvor:v:4:y:2007:i:4:p:402-412. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=22 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.