The mediating effect of organizational culture and knowledge sharing on transformational leadership and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems success at the University

Senior leadership has been identified as a critical factor in fostering Enterprise Resource Planning systems success. Although, previous studies have investigated the impact of transformational leadership on Enterprise Resource Planning from various angles, however, the role of transformational leadership on Enterprise Resource Planning systems success at the University has not been studied. The purpose of this study was determine the role of transformational leadership on Enterprise Resource Planning systems success at the University. The research model was tested through a survey in Allameh Tabatabai University, University of Economic Sciences, and Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. Correlation analysis of multivariate data was done on the completed questionnaires by 200 employees. The results of the Structural Equation Modeling showed that Transformational leadership is positively related with Enterprise Resource Planning systems success. Organizational culture mediates the relationship between transformational leadership and Enterprise Resource Planning systems success. However, transformational leadership is not positively related with ERP explicit knowledge sharing. Also, the results showed that organizational culture and ERP explicit knowledge sharing is positively related with enterprise resource planning systems success and ERP explicit knowledge sharing mediates the relationship between transformational leadership and enterprise resource planning systems success. The research findings can provide guidelines for the top executives to facilitate appropriate organizational culture, so as to foster ERP knowledge sharing and achieve business benefits with the assimilation of ERP systems.