Research on Enterprise Systems (ES) generally focuses on the implementation phase and issues occurring during the initialrun-time. In contrast, only limited research on the selection of an ES has been conducted; a clear focus on the outcome of the selection phase from the perspective of the ES...

Enterprise systems, i. e. company-wide packages of enterprise software for planning, calculating and managing business processes, are widely used in various industry branches throughout many countries. In general employed to replace firms’ usually poorly connected legacy software, enterprise...