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456 Int. J. Business and Systems Research, Vol. 3, No. 4, 2009 A study of the selection criteria for enterprise resource planning systems Wen-Hsien Tsai*, Pei-Ling Lee, Shu-Ping Chen and Wei Hsu Department of Business Administration, National Central University, Jhongli, Taoyuan 320, Taiwan E-mail: whtsai@.tw E-mail: 964401001@.tw E-mail: irwin26@.tw E-mail: 954401006@.tw *Corresponding author Thomas W. Lin Leventhal School of Accounting, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA E-mail: wtlin@ Abstract: This study draws on the findings of two cross-sectional surveys of the top 5,000 largest corporations in Taiwan, undertaken in 2003 and 2006. It presents the organisations’ criteria for selecting enterprise resource planning (ERP) software package and its supplier. The different selection criteria for ERP software package and its supplier between the two investigative years are discussed. From the results, we also discovered that a number of selection criteria are highly related to a domestic or international ERP package’s utilisation and ERP supplier’s adoption. Keywords: ERP; enterprise resource planning systems; selection criteria; ERP package’s selection; ERP supplier’s selection. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Tsai, W-H., Lee, P-L., Chen, S-P., Hsu, W. and Lin, T.W. (2009) ‘A study of the selection criteria for enterprise resource planning systems’, Int. J. Business and Systems Research , Vol. 3, No. 4, pp.456–480. Biographi