Impediments to Inter-Firm Transfer of Best Practice in an Enterprise Systems Context

Authors

• Greg TimbrellFollow
• Natalie AndrewsFollow
• Guy GableFollow

Document Type

Research Article

Abstract

A survey of major issues with Enterprise Systems was administered within the State Government of Queensland, Australia and a subset of these issues mapped against Szulanski’s model of inter-firm best practice transfer stickiness (Szulanski, G. 1996. Exploring internal stickiness: Impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm. Strategic Management Journal, 17(Special Issue), 27-43). The paper discusses impediments to knowledge transfer within this context, presents findings from the a posteriori application of Szulanski’s model to the survey responses, and suggests future research directions.

Recommended Citation

Timbrell, Greg; Andrews, Natalie; and Gable, Guy (2001) "Impediments to Inter-Firm Transfer of Best Practice in an Enterprise Systems Context," The Australasian Journal of Information Systems: Vol. 9: No. 1, Article 23.
DOI: 10.3127/ajis.v9i1.219
Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/ajis/vol9/iss1/23