Download or read book The Relationship Between Investment in Information Technology and Firm Performance written by Peter Weill and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship Between Investment in Information Technology and Firm Performance in the Manufacturing Sector written by Peter David Weill and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship Between Investment in Information Technology and Firm Performance in the Manufacturing Sector written by Peter Weill and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mediating Effect of Innovation on the Relationship Between Information Technology Investments and Firm Performance written by Erastus Karanja and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last couple of decades has witnessed a plethora of research studies addressing the cause-and-effect relationship between Information Technology (IT) investments and performance at the firm level. These studies elicited mixed results between IT investments and performance which led to various points of view from IT Scholars and Practitioners. Recently, though, there is an emerging consensus that IT investments do augment the performance of the firm, albeit indirectly. However, there seems to be a dearth of research studies investigating the underlying mechanisms through which IT investments impact specific business processes to spur the agreed performance differentials. In response to calls for research that investigates the business processes impacted by IT investments, this study examines the underlying mechanisms through which IT investments influence innovation that in turn leads to improved firm performance. Since firms do not operate in isolation, and also because one business process has the potential to complement or suppress another, the study includes specific firm factors, namely debt ratio, growth potential, and firm size, as well as environmental factors such as market concentration ratio, diversification, and environmental uncertainty, and examines how these control factors impact innovation and, ultimately, firm performance. A set of hypotheses grounded in the knowledge-based view and the resource-based view theories of the firm is generated and empirically tested in a sample of 441 firms in the manufacturing industry, using a unique dataset that comprises IT investments data from InformationWeek 500, patents data from United States Patents and Trademark Office, as well as financial and market data from Research Insight (COMPUSTAT). Both hierarchical linear regression and mediated regression models are used to analyze the data; and after controlling for variations in specific firm and environmental factors, the empirical analysis yielded significant relationships between IT investments and innovation, and innovation and firm performance. Also, specific firm factors such as debt ratio and firm size, and environmental factors, namely, diversification and market concentration ratio, were found to be significantly related to innovation. However, and contrary to expectations, IT investments was found not to be significantly related to either of the measures of firm performance, namely, Tobin's Q and Return on Sales. These results highlight the indirect, though positive, role of IT investments in firm performance and reiterate that IT investments should be embedded and integrated in the business processes to spur firm performance differentials.-- Abstract.
Download or read book It Investment and Firm Performance in U S Retail Trade written by Mark E. Doms and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the relationship between investments in information technology (IT) and two measures of retail firm performance: labor productivity and productivity growth over the 1992 to 1997 period. We use untapped firm and establishment micro data from the Censuses of Retail Trade and the Assets and Expenditures Survey. We show that large firms account for most retail IT investment, employment and establishment growth. We find evidence of a significant relationship between IT investment intensity and productivity growth. We found no evidence of a similar link between IT and growth in the number of establishments operated by retail firms.
Download or read book The Effect of Organizational Innovation and Information Technology on Firm Performance electronic Resource written by Surendra Gera and published by Statistics Canada. This book was released on 2004 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines whether investment in information & communications technologies (ICT), combined with organizational changes & worker skills, contributes to better performance in Canadian firms. It first presents a review of the literature on the relationship between ICT, organizational changes, and firm performance. It then uses a comprehensive establishment-level micro data set, the Statistics Canada 1999 Workplace & Employee Survey, to empirically assess that relationship. It studies the interactions between ICT use, organizational changes in the areas of production practices, human resource management practices, and service- or product-related practices and human capital as drivers of better firm performance in the knowledge-based economy. The paper extends previous studies to include firms in both the manufacturing & service sectors.
Download or read book Information Technology Investment written by Marc J. Schniederjans and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the individual to the largest organization, everyone today has to make investments in information technology. Making a good investment that will best satisfy all the necessary decision criteria requires a careful and inclusive analysis. "Information Technology Investment: Decision-Making Methodology is a textbook that will provide the understanding of methodologies available to aid in this area of complex, multi-criterion decision-making. It presents a detailed, step-by-step set of procedures and methodologies that readers can use immediately to improve their IT investment decision-making. Unique to this textbook are both financial investment models and more complex decision-making models from management science, so users can extend the analysis benefits to confirm and enhance the ideal IT investment choices.
Download or read book Explaining the Inconsistent Results of the Impact of Information Technology Investments on Firm Performance a Longitudinal Analysis written by Ashraf Khallaf and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to identify potential reasons for inconsistent results of the economic value of information technology (IT) investments. Furthermore, the study aims to develop framework and propositions to explore future opportunities and directions for research that examine the returns on IT investments.Design/methodology/approach - This study conducted a longitudinal analysis of the literature review concerning the impact of IT investments on firm performance to identify the reasons to the so-called “IT productivity paradox” and to explore future opportunities and directions for future research.Findings - The study provides and discusses the reasons for the inconsistent results in the prior research that examines IT investments payoff and suggested a framework and propositions for future research. Results of prior studies should be interpreted in the context of research questions raised, data used, level of analysis, IT investment measures, firm performance measures, time horizon and industry characteristics.Practical implications - IT managers and researchers should align IT investments with the environment in which a firm operates and competes and with firm's business strategies as important determinants of the return on IT investments.Originality/value - Understanding the link between firm performance and IT investments assists researchers and practitioners to understand why firms continue to pour enormous resources into IT and, more importantly, specifies the conditions under which firms are likely to achieve competitive advantages from their IT investments.
Download or read book Investigating the Performance of US Manufacturing and Service Operations written by Gilwhan Kim and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research in operations management focuses on explaining differences in operating performance across organizations (Gino and Pisano 2008). In the same manner, this dissertation is motivated by the need to investigate the firm's performance as measured by technical (productive) efficiency and inventory productivity. The dissertation consists of three essays, addressing: (i) the performance of U.S. manufacturing and service operations in the presence of information technology (IT); (ii) the impacts of firm and industry characteristics upon the business value of IT as measured by technical efficiency; and (iii) the relationships among inventory turnover performance, IT, and firm and industry characteristics.In the first essay, based on the Bayesian stochastic production frontier approach, we evaluate and compare the performance of U.S. manufacturing and service operations in the presence of IT at the firm, industry, and sector levels, using a set of firm level data from 133 firms from 1999 to 2009. We also examine whether or not the "IT productivity paradox" exists in terms of technical efficiency, categorizing the whole sample into three subgroups according to the relative size of IT investment (high IT, medium IT, and low IT investment firms). Moreover, by suggesting a sensitivity analysis, we observe the variation of technical efficiency responding to the variation in the quality of IT capital. The main findings include the following: (i) a fair number of firms considered in this research benefit from adopting IT capital as one of their production factors. (ii) a lot of IT investments do not necessarily improve technical efficiency. (iii) wholesale industry performs best in terms of technical efficiency irrespective of the introduction of IT. (iv) the IT productivity paradox is observed in eight industries (five manufacturing and three service industries). (v) low IT investment firms, wholesale industry, and service sector turn out to be less sensitive to the variation in the quality of IT capital. In addition, this essay reviews in detail the useful estimation method called Gibbs sampling, considered one of the novel ways to analyze managerial problems. In the second essay, we investigate the roles of firm and industry characteristics in conjunction with IT in terms of technical efficiency. Specifically, employing growth options and vertical integration to reflect firm characteristics, and adopting industry dynamism and concentration to reflect industry characteristics, we analyze the impacts of these variables upon the business value of IT as measured by technical efficiency. For analysis, this essay relies on the generalized two-equation model equipped with the Bayesian stochastic production frontier, using a set of firm level IT data from 131 firms from 1999 to 2009. Importantly, the IT productivity paradox is reexamined on the consideration of the selected characteristics. The principal findings include: (i) IT has the positive impact on output and technical efficiency at the collective level, regardless of the introduction of firm and industry characteristics. (ii) vertical integration has a negative impact on output and technical efficiency, and the relationship between IT and vertical integration is substitutable. (iii) high IT investment firms do not benefit from IT in the absence and presence of firm and industry characteristics. (iv) the IT productivity paradox is observed in most industries with higher IT investment. (v) substitutability phenomena created by IT and firm and industry characteristics appear in six industries (three manufacturing industries and three service industries), no matter which characteristics are considered. In the third essay, we examine the relationship between IT investment and inventory turnover performance, using 98 firms spanning 11 years (from 1999 to 2009). In addition, we analyze the correlation of inventory turnover performance with firm and industry characteristics. Specifically, as in the second essay, vertical integration and growth options are chosen to reflect the important features of the firm's internal characteristics, and industry dynamism and concentration are chosen to represent the industry's competitive environment. The major findings include the following: (i) inventory turnover ratio is positively correlated with IT investment and growth options. (ii) inventory turnover ratio is negatively correlated with vertical integration and industry dynamism. We also examine time trends in inventory turnover performance and find that it has been improved over the period from 1999 to 2009.
Download or read book Exploring Services Science written by Stefano Za and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Exploring Services Science, IESS 2017, held in Rome, Italy, in May 2017. The 33 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. IESS 2017 covered major research and development areas related to Service Science foundations, service engineering and management, service innovation, service orientation of processes, applications in service sectors and ICT support for services. The presented papers were organized in topical sections named: theoretical contributions: literature analysis and conceptual models; service systems analysis and design; service organizations case studies and practices; and sustainability: service ecosystems, environment control and transportation.
Download or read book Leveraging the New Infrastructure written by Peter Weill and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 1998-05-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine thinking about your company's information technology in the same way that you think about its investment portfolio: as a bundle of assets that—when managed right—will generate revenues and savings. Here's just such a framework for leveraging IT (technology, networks, data, and software)—one that enables business managers to make the important decisions about the potentially confounding mix of high-technology that influences near- and long-term planning, affects the ability to support customers, and dictates the flow of daily operations. Drawing upon their rigorous research with more than 100 top multinationals, the authors present a rich and varied range of examples of IT investment strategies that have reaped rewards for firms such as Citibank, Honda, Johnson & Johnson, Ralston Purina, the Development Bank of Singapore, and Telstra. This hands-on resource, compete with benchmarks and case studies, creates the common ground where both management and IT can meet, communicate their goals, and agree on the best plan for getting there.
Download or read book Advances in Computers written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1996-08-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first volume in 1960, Advances in Computers has presented detailed coverage of innovations in hardware and software and in computer theory, design, and applications. It has also provided contributorswith a medium in which they can examine their subjects in greater depth and breadth than that allowed by standard journal articles. As a result, many articles have become standard references that continue to be of significant, lasting value despite the rapid growth taking place in the field.
Download or read book Organizational Productivity and Performance Measurements Using Predictive Modeling and Analytics written by Tavana, Madjid and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Businesses are collecting massive amounts of data every day as a way to better understand their processes, competition, and the markets they serve. This data can be used to increase organizational productivity and performance; however, is essential that organizations collecting large data sets have the tools available to them to fully understand the data they are collecting. Organizational Productivity and Performance Measurements Using Predictive Modeling and Analytics takes a critical look at methods for enhancing an organization’s operations and day-to-day activities through the effective use of data. Focusing on a variety of applications of predictive analytics within organizations of all types, this critical publication is an essential resource for business managers, data scientists, graduate-level students, and researchers.
Download or read book On the Relationship Between Information Technology Investment and Corporate Performance written by Wuu-Yee Chen and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science written by Allen Kent and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-05-19 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adsorption of Information Technology to Software Reliability.
Download or read book Evidence Based Public Management written by Anna Shillabeer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence-based management (EBMgt) derives principles of good management from scientific research, meta-analysis, literature reviews, and case studies, and then translates them into practice. This book is the first systematic assessment of EBMgt and its potential application in public management.
Download or read book Innovative Technologies for Information Resources Management written by Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As information resource management becomes increasingly dependent on emerging technologies to combat its challenges and decipher its effective strategies, the demand builds for a critical mass of research in this area. Innovative Technologies for Information Resource Management brings together compelling content related to the continually emerging technologies in areas of information systems such as Web services, electronic commerce, distance learning, healthcare, business process management, and software development. Focusing on the implications innovative technologies have on the managerial and organizational aspects of information resource management, this book provides academcians and practitioners with a requisite and enlightening reference source.
