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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation is one of the most pervasive sources of technological change in contemporary Australian enterprises. ERP systems are computer-based technologies that are designed to increase efficiency and achieve major cost savings across the entire organization. Their implementation has significant implications for the structure, nature and management of organizations. This project's innovative application of an organizational change model to a series of Australian case studies across a range of organizational types will generate important new insights into the effects of ERP implementations at Australian organizations and help explain why some implementations are more successful than others.
Project Team Members: David Grant, Bill Harley (University of Melbourne), Cynthia Hardy (University of Melbourne), Nick Wailes, Richard Hall, Susan Ainsworth, Kristine Dery and Christopher Wright.
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Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS)
- This project examines the impact of human resource information systems (HRIS) on the human resource function in four large Australian organisations. By focusing on the impact of this increasingly sophisticated technology on the HR function, the project will contribute to debates about the strategic significance of HR and through the innovative application of social constructivist views of technology will identify strategies HR professionals can adopt to enhance the strategic benefit of these systems for their organisations.
Project Team Members: David Grant, Richard Hall, Nick Wailes, Kristine Dery and Sharna Wiblen.
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Sustainable Organisational Change: Australian Business Responses to Climate Change
- This ARC funded research project investigates how businesses are responding to the issue of climate change. Through a series of detailed organisational case studies conducted in a variety of industry settings, we explore how businesses and senior managers seek to make sense of climate change and analyse the different types of practices they are implementing in this regard. Our focus includes changed business strategies; new technologies; efficiency improvements; carbon emissions measurement and reporting; waste reduction; green products; green marketing, changes in supply chains; green culture change; public advocacy, and networking and alliances. Industry settings include financial services, manufacturing, media, energy and resources. Through investigating this issue we seek to contribute to broader debates about the interrelationship between discourse and organisational change, institutional entrepreneurship, identity and identity work, justification and compromise, and emotions and emotionality within organisations. Australian Research Council Discovery Grant DP110104066 (2011-2013).
Project Team Members: Christopher Wright, Daniel Nyberg, David Grant and Richard Dunford.
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