IT Innovativeness and Environmental Consciousness on Organizational Performance

The purpose of our study is to investigate the impacts of Information Technology (IT) innovation and environmental consciousness on firm performance. We tested the robustness of innovation theory using the most recent Information Week (IW) 500 annual datasets. As expected, performance of IT innovators was better than their industry average performance. However, performance of environmentally conscious IT innovators is frequently no better than that of less conscious IT innovative firms. And, for some performance indicators, less environmentally conscious IT innovative firms out-performed more environmentally conscious IT innovative firms.Information technology (IT) innovation, firm performance, organizational innovation, IT role, environmental consciousness, and environmental performance

Investigating the Impact of Firm Strategy – Click-and-Brick, Brick-and-Mortar, and Pure-Click – on Financial Performance

Attracted by the numerous benefits of E-commerce, many traditional brick-and-mortar firms have embraced the Internet to supplement their business operations and have adopted the “click-and-brick” approach. Despite these changes, insufficient empirical research has been conducted on the impact of different firm types on financial performance. Based on the resource-based view, this study presents empirical research examining the possible ramifications and an overall impact. This study does this by comparing financial performance of click-and-brick firms with the performance of traditional, as well as pure-click firms that rely solely on the Internet.E-commerce, pure-click, click-and-brick, brick-and-mortar, financial performance, resourced-based view

PLANNING TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS FOR HIGH PAYOFFS: A RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS APPROACH TO GAUGING POTENTIAL AND REALIZED VALUE IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

This paper examines the impact of information security breaches on organizational performance. Up to date, there have been only a few empirical academic studies that have investigated this issue and they have investigated information security breaches with the focus on the short-term impact on the market value of the firm. This study offers an alternate approach to investigate this issue as it explores the impact of breaches on financial performance of the firm, one year after the breach. Using a “matched sampling” methodology, we explored the impact of each type of breach (i.e. confidentiality, integrity, and availability) and also by IT intensity and size. Our results suggest that the direction of the impact (i.e. positive, negative) is dependent on the type of security breaches and also the impact of IT intensive firms is different from non-IT intensive firms. Our study also includes some important implications for managers and stock market investors.Information security, impact, security breach, organizational performance,confidentiality, integrity, availability

Current State of the Digital Deception Studies in IS

Digital deceptions exist on the Internet in various forms and for different purposes. The purpose of this study is to understand the current state of the digital deception research in IS discipline. Based on our review and analysis of the selected digital deception articles published in IS journals and conference proceedings, we discussed various perspectives of digital deceptions, such as the media, types of deception, deceivers, motivations, and victims. The results of our study indicate that deception phenomena are severely under-researched in IS discipline. The study provides suggestions for future research

Factors Influencing Patients’ Perceptions toward Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Use: A Conceptual Model

Despite the rapid technological advancements in the last decade, the adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) systems by hospitals and healthcare providers are far less than expected (Ford, Menachemi, and Phillips, 2006; Hsiao, Hing, Socey, and Cai, 2010). Although a large number of previous studies focused on the adoption and use of EMR systems from the healthcare professionals’ perspectives, there is little research that examined this issue from the perspectives of patients. This study proposes a conceptual model that incorporates users’ characteristics, their personality traits, their perceptions on privacy and security, social influence, and a number of external factors, which influence patients’ perceptions toward EMR use. The proposed research model provides additional insights to the technology adoption and EMR adoption research

Identifying Green IT Leaders with Financial and Environmental Performance Indicators

The goal of this paper is to identify key financial and accounting variables that can accurately classify Green IT leaders against Green IT followers. The detailed objectives are: (i) to build and compare single and meta classifiers to identify the relationship between environmental performance and financial performance; (ii) to select and interpret a final prediction model with a smaller set of financial performance indicators; and (iii) to validate propositions based on theories and literature review. Our experimental results demonstrate that several key variables representing the size, financial resources, operational efficiency, and risk-taking tendency of an organization can successfully identify Green IT leaders with approximately 90% of accuracy

A Regression Tree Based Exploration of the Impact of Information Technology Investments on Firm Level Productivity

The issue as to whether investments in information technology (IT) contribute significantly to organizational productivity has been of major concern for many years, and various studies have lead to seemingly contradictory results. In this paper, we analyze the relationship between IT investments and firm level productivity using regression trees (RT). Use of this data mining technique represents a novel approach to identifying elements of this relationship as most previous studies have primarily used econometrics-based techniques. While the use of traditional techniques has provided valuable results, our RT-based analysis revealed additional findings that were not identified in the previous studies. For example unlike the econometric-based studies that identify a uniform impact of IT investments on productivity, our RT-based analysis suggests that IT has an impact on productivity only when Non-IT Labor expenses are within the interior interval. Also, even within this range, the impact of IT is not uniform