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ERP projects shift a significant proportion of the implementation effort from code development to the parameterization of a pre-existing software package. At the same time, they move complexity from technical to organizational factors since they force companies to adapt to predefined work processes embedded in the software. This paper redefines the concepts of size and complexity for ERP projects and empirically verifies their impact on implementation effort. Specifically, project size is measured in terms of the number of SAP modules and submodules that are implemented, while complexity is defined as the organizational scope of the project in terms of users involved and overall company size. Hypotheses are tested on 43 SAP\/R3 projects conducted in a cross-section of manufacturing companies. The findings show that both the technical size and organizational complexity of projects are relevant drivers of implementation effort. The results indicate that implementation effort not only grows with the number of modules and submodules that are selected for implementation, but that SAP is found to require increasing resources to be implemented in larger companies and for a higher number of users, thus indicating that, while there is a technical component of effort that is independent of the organizational breadth of the project, each user adds an organizational component of costs. <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1080\/02683960010035943","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2002,7,26]],"date-time":"2002-07-26T15:56:55Z","timestamp":1027699015000},"page":"33-48","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":50,"title":["Predicting the Implementation Effort of Erp Projects: Empirical Evidence on SAP\/R3"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Chiara","family":"Francalanci","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo Da 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