The authors thank the international ERP system supplier for providing them with the ERP system implementation
data. They also appreciate the helpful comments of Alex Nikitkov, Darrell Brown, Marianne Bradford, Robin
Pennington, and Jeff Wong, as well as participants at the 2006 IS Section Midyear Conference and the 2006 AAA
Annual Meeting. We are especially thankful for the valuable comments we received from the editor, associate
editor, and four anonymous reviewers. Funding for this research was partially provided by an NCSU Edwin Gill
Research Grant.