The influence of organizational and information systems factors on the effectiveness of post-merger technology integration

This dissertation explores how ten specific organizational and information systems factors influence post-merger IS integration success, and the role that degree of IS integration plays in moderating the influence these factors may have on IS integration success. Data were gathered, using a self-administered survey instrument, from senior IS executives at firms that experienced a U.S. public merger greater than $25 million between 2004 and 2007. Support is found for the study\u27s Conceptual Model, indicating that all ten factors in unison influence post-merger IS integration success. The data support the hypotheses that quality of merger planning, quality of communication of merger activities to IS, quality of IS integration planning, degree of end-user involvement in IS integration activities, and quality of technical support to users during the IS integration each have a significant influence on post-merger IS integration success. The data also support the moderating effect of degree of IS integration on the relationship between post-merger IS integration success and executive (non-IS) management support. In a supplemental path model analysis, a complex relationship is hypothesized to exist between the factors and IS Capability and IS Performance, the two IS integration success measures, As a result, four of the five remaining hypotheses are indirectly supported. This research expands the body of knowledge that identifies sources of IS integration performance, thus helping to explain sources of overall merger performance

Post-Merger Technology Integration: Influential Organization and Information Systems Factors

This research investigates the role that four organizational and six information system factors, managed by leadership teams, play in predicting the success of post-merger information systems (IS) integration between two companies. Data were gathered using a self-administered, mail and online survey instrument from senior IS executives at firms that have experienced a U.S. public merger greater than $25 million between 2004 and 2007. The results support the research hypotheses that quality of merger planning, quality of communication of merger activities to IS, quality of IS integration planning, degree of end-user involvement in IS integration activities, and quality of technical support to users during the IS integration each have a significant influence on post-merger IS integration success. In addition, based on a supplemental path model analysis, four additional hypotheses are indirectly supported. Although constrained by some limitations, this research contributes to the body of knowledge that identifies sources of IS integration performance, thus further explaining sources of overall merger performance

Signs as deterrents of illegal parking in spaces designated for individuals with physical disabilities.

The percentage of illegal parking in spaces reserved for the physically disabled was monitored under three sign conditions: ground markings, ground markings plus vertical signs, and vertical signs containing a message that concerned citizens were watching the spaces. Illegal parking dropped from 69.3% of 102 vehides during the initial ground-sign condition to 57.3% of 36 vehides in the first vertical-sign condition. Following removal of the vertical signs, illegal parking increased to 68.7% of 43 vehides. During the second vertical-sign condition, illegal parking dropped to 53.7% of 32 vehides, followed by an increase to 69.5% of 68 vehides after the vertical signs were removed. The lowest rate of illegal parking (27.1% of 78 vehides) occurred in the vertical-sign-plus-message condition. Illegal parking subsequently increased to 34.6% (of 94 vehides) when the message sign was removed, followed by an increase to 65.2% (of 105 vehides) when the vertical signs were removed. Originally published Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring 199

Natural Resource Protection and Petroleum Development in Alaska: A Summary

Performed for Office of Biological Services Fish and Wildlife Service U.S. Department of the Interior Contract No. 14-16-0009-79-123 Job No. 6347-011-2

Songs by Ethelbert Nevin: summer longings

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Characterization of the effects of lithophysae on the tensile strength of the Topapah Spring Tuff

Online access for this thesis was created in part with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) administered by the Nevada State Library, Archives and Public Records through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). To obtain a high quality image or document please contact the DeLaMare Library at https://unr.libanswers.com/ or call: 775-784-6945.A study was conducted to determine the effects of lithophysae on the tensile strength of the lithophysal zone of the Topapah Spring Tuff from Yucca Mountain in southern Nevada. Lithophysae did have an effect on the direction and extent of fracturing