  Information systems have always been in a prime focus in organizations in
both local (Pakistani) and global environment. Now the race of being the best
through Information Systems has created its importance in public sector
organizations to meet the global challenges. Public sector organizations have
been facing problems in different segments of technology adoption especially in
ERP projects. ERP adoption/implementation projects in public sector
organizations still encounter major setbacks in terms of partly/completely
success/failure. Cultural and other social barriers have been resistant in
technology adoption in Pakistan. Now in the case of big ERP adoptions the
contextual factors must be identified and addressed. The paper investigates the
reasons of success or failure by addressing nature of complexities regarding
different contextual factors. The study includes a sample of Pakistan s four
public sector organizations. The sample of this four organizations includes two
organizations (Type-A) i.e. Oil & Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) and
National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) where ERP has been
successfully implemented and other two (Type-B) i.e. Pakistan Telecommunication
Corporation Limited (PTCL), Higher Education Commission (HEC) where ERP
implementation is in progress. The findings address the contextual factors i.e.
cultural, environmental & political changes which have a variable impact on ERP
systems adoption/implementation in addition to Business Process Re-engineering
(BPR). Paper also briefly includes analysis of gaps between pre & post ERP
implementation scenarios.
