A Study of Applying the Structuration Model of Technology to the Implement of Enterprise Resource Planning

The velocity and dynamic nature of the global marketplace, in terms of the progress of the information technology, has driven a competitive incentive among companies in Taiwan to consolidate and reconcile their service, as a means of creating value that is sustainable over time. The enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, during the past decade, is paid much attention in the business setting in Taiwan. A lot of efforts have been spent on its related studies, especially on critical success or failure factors, however, the depth and practical standpoints for the interaction among people when implemented the ERP system is spare. The main purpose of this study was that it adopted the Structuration Model of information technology, originally from Orlikowski, to explore the interactions among ERP system. Organization and Person when the ERP system implemented. The results revealed that there existed interactions among technology, ERP participants and organization. It is hope that the results of this study could provide valuable information to managers when launch an ERP system.