Authors: Pinsonneault, Alain;
Barki, Henri
Abstract:
Drawing on the concept of organizational integration, we
developed a typology that allows us to classify organizational IT
applications and better understand, explain, and potentially
predict their impacts. As a preliminary test of the typology, the
empirical evidence of past research on the impacts of IT on
organizational performance was reviewed. We classified the
organizational IT applications that were studied in previous work
according to our proposed typology and compared their results on IT
impacts against the impacts hypothesized in our proposed framework.
The proposed framework correctly predicted 87% of past significant
findings and 51% of the non-significant findings of extant research
(the overall prediction rate was 76%). This is a significant
improvement in our predictive abilities as none of the latter
studies had hypothesized non-significant effects of IT on
performance. © 2012 IEEE.
Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on
System Sciences, 2011