ERP Systems Adoption Evolution in Iberian Companies

Abstract: In an increasingly globalized and complex environment, companies are making an effort to implement systems based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to improve their management and organizational performance and competitiveness. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are increasingly present in companies. In Spain and Portugal, large, medium and small companies have developed further efforts to implement ERP systems despite the difficult economic and financial situation of recent years. This study presents companies’ effort in implementing and using ERP systems during the global financial and economic crisis and recession (2007-2014) comparing company’s size and sector of activity in Iberian companies, Spanish and Portuguese.

Keywords: information and communication technologies, enterprise resource planning (ERP) adoption, iberian companies, the financial and economic crisis of 2008.