The Evolution of Enterprise Wide Systems within Australian Higher Education

According to the Australian vice chancellor's committee (AVCC), there are 38 individual universities in Australia, with two of them being privately owned and not funded by the government (AVCC, 2002). These universities operate in one of the most reviewed sectors in Australia (Hamilton, 1997), which has undergone and is in the process of undergoing major restructuring. Universities are expected to respond to these changes, which include the recruitment of more students, declining public funding, and increased government pressures to reform their structures, lower their costs, and achieve greater administrative efficiency In the late 1980s, there were calls from the government to attract more students into universities (Hore & Barwood, 1989) when it became clear that universities needed to improve economic efficiency, resulting in a restructuring of the entire