Special Issue "Sustainable Enterprise Resources Planning Systems: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Directions"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Abdoulmohammad Gholamzadeh Chofreh
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Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory – SPIL, NETME Centre, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology - VUT Brno, Technická 2896/2, 616 69 Brno, Czech Republic
Interests: sustainable enterprise resource planning (S-ERP) systems; sustainable development; sustainable business models; strategic management; integrated information systems
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Dr. Feybi Ariani Goni
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Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Management, Brno University of Technology —VUT Brno, Technická 2896/2, 616 69 Brno, Czech Republic
Interests: sustainable enterprise resource planning (S-ERP) systems; sustainable development; sustainable business models; integrated information systems; green information systems
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Syuhaida Ismail
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Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, 54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Interests: project management; construction management; civil engineering; construction technology; sustainable construction; infrastructure; sustainable cities
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Achieving sustainability in a firm requires a holistic, integrative, and complete view spanning not just the product and the manufacturing processes, but also the entire value chains, including manufacturing systems across multiple product life-cycles. This requires improved models, metrics for sustainability performance evaluation, and optimization techniques at product, process, and system levels. In the transitional period towards sustainability systems, organizations are practicing sustainability in their value chains as separate functions. Firms perform sustainability modeling and implement specific environmental or social management systems without integrating them into the management system, core business processes, and tools. Current information systems are not designed to capture the sustainability-related data and are not intended to support the management of data for all sustainability dimensions. Many pieces of these data could be qualitative and difficult to process and analyze. Thus, sustainable enterprise resource planning (S-ERP) systems are necessary to solve segregation and digitization problems.

Research into S-ERP is at the stage of introduction. There are a few numbers of studies that explore the current status, benefits, issues, challenges, and implementation process of the system. Therefore, in order to understand the important role of S-ERP systems in firms, in this Special Issue, we are interested in providing state‐of‐the‐art literature by progressing S-ERP research and stimulating innovation in the implementation of the firm's systems, considering, but not limited to, the following topics:

  • Enterprise resource planning evolution towards sustainability
  • Concept and principal of S-ERP
  • S-ERP research significance
  • Benefits and advantages of the S-ERP
  • Transformation of the S-ERP system
  • Issues and challenges on S-ERP implementation
  • The life cycle of the S-ERP system
  • The architecture of the S-ERP
  • S-ERP system design and integration
  • Modelling and simulation of the S-ERP
  • Project management related to S-ERP implementation
  • Organizational culture, capability, and readiness in the S-ERP system adoption
  • Critical success factors of S-ERP system implementation
  • S-ERP system selection
  • Application of decision-making methods to evaluate the S-ERP system
  • Using neural networks models in the assessment of the S-ERP system
  • Optimization models for the S-ERP system

Dr. Abdoulmohammad Gholamzadeh Chofreh
Dr. Feybi Ariani Goni
Dr. Abbas Mardani
Dr. Syuhaida Ismail
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sustainable enterprise resource planning
  • green information systems
  • sustainable business models
  • integrated information systems
  • sustainable development
  • digital sustainability
  • sustainable value chain

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The Moderating Impact of Organizational Identity Strength between Strategic Improvisation and Organizational Memory and Their Effects on Competitive Advantage
Sustainability 2021, 13(6), 3207; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063207 - 15 Mar 2021
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In the ever-changing environment, companies are often required to adopt improvised responses to certain unpredicted events and sometimes need to improvise strategically to sustain or thrive. However, the mechanism between strategic improvisation and competitive advantage is understudied. In this study, we try to [...] Read more.
In the ever-changing environment, companies are often required to adopt improvised responses to certain unpredicted events and sometimes need to improvise strategically to sustain or thrive. However, the mechanism between strategic improvisation and competitive advantage is understudied. In this study, we try to unveil the mechanism by proposing a moderated mediation model investigating the relationships among strategic improvisation, organizational memory, organizational identity strength, and competitive advantage. Using survey data collected among top managers and members of funding teams in Jiangsu Province, China, we find that strategic improvisation is positively related to competitive advantage, and most importantly, this relationship is partially mediated by organizational memory. However, the moderating effect of organizational identity strength on the relationship between strategic improvisation and organizational memory is not proven. We contribute to the existing literature by making up for the deficiency of the traditional resource-based view to some extent, enhancing the understanding of strategic improvisation, and contributing to achieving sustainable development goals 8 and 12. We also offer some practical suggestions to top managers in terms of cultivating improvising learning as well. Full article
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