Value potential and challenges of service-oriented architectures - A user and vendor perspectiv

Undoubtedly social influence in IS research is an issue that needs to be much more clearly examined. In order to assuage the wants for more research in this field we conducted a scientometric analysis of subjective norm in the IS top-journals of the JAIS ranking for the last two decades. In total 113 empirical and conceptual research models predominately in adoption research contained the factor subjective norm. The results revealed that subjective norm is just in seven of ten models a significant antecedent. To gain more knowledge about this problem we followed the ideas of social psychology and marketing researchers and correlated the strength of the impact of subjective norm with its measurement as well as the impact of intention with the impact on other endogenous variables. The results show a significant negative correlation between the significant antecedent subjective norm and its original measurement, the perceived opinion of important others. Furthermore it revealed a significant negative correlation between the significant impact of subjective norm on intention and the significant impact on other endogenous variables

There is something about process standards: An empirical analysis

Insights from qualitative information systems research reveal a strong impact of process standardization on the overall process performance like reduced process time or process costs in staff recruitment. Surprisingly, the process owners indicated that an increased use of information systems (IS) in different sub processes such as candidate attraction or applicant tracking triggered overall process standardization. Based on these qualitative research approaches and the additional literature about the antecedents of process standardization and its impact we conducted an empirical survey with 156 process owners in large scale companies to revise these findings. The evaluation of our structural equation model using partial least squares shows that process standardization is a full mediator for the relationship between system usage and process performance measured in process time, cost, and quality and that information systems usage directly and significantly influences process standardization

Differentiating the Impact of Social Influence - An Empirical Analysis of Household Adopters

Although widely accepted as critical determinant for an individual’s adoption decision in households social influence is rather be known as the unloved child of technology adoption research. As several IS researchers pointed out the need for more sophisticated methods to assess social influence and a clarification of its role we aim to contribute to existing household adoption research by providing an empirical analysis observing the social influence of different referent groups and secondary sources on the behavioral intention to participate in social networking portals by different adopter groups. Therefore we evaluated survey data of 422 young professionals, 771 professionals and 226 managers with the help of multiregression analysis. We come up with two interesting contributions to existing household adoption research. On the one hand social influence of different referent groups and secondary sources significantly affects the intention of adopter groups with different career status, age and prior experience and on the other hand social influence differs for both source (referent group or secondary source) and sink (adopter group) with varying adopter’s career status

EMPLOYER BRANDING VIA SOCIAL NETWORK SITES - A SILVER BULLET TO ATTRACT IT PROFESSIONALS?

Due to a shortage of IT professionals, many companies intensify their efforts to be perceived as attractive employers in this field, especially by means of social network sites (SNS) such as Facebook. However, it is unknown whether these presences do really attract IT professionals, and if so, whether this is more due to the utilitarian (job search-related) characteristics or to the hedonic (entertaining) characteristics of the SNS. In our study, we compared the usage behavior of IT graduates with that of a different group of graduates (in this case: humanities graduates). Our results reveal that corporate SNS presences are suitable to effectively attract IT professionals. Our study proves that the usage behavior of IT graduates is predominantly driven by utilitarian aspects of the SNS presences, while we could verify that humanities graduates use such SNS presences predominantly for entertainment purposes. Therefore, it seems advisable that companies choose the design for their SNS presence with particular regard to the target group that they want to attract and recruit

Sociability and Technostress in Online Classes: The Effects on Students’ Emotional Exhaustion During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The move to online classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led students in high schools to experience new issues because of their constant use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). One of the consequences of constant ICT use is emotional exhaustion, which is raised or limited by different factors. Sociability is one of the factors that might decrease emotional exhaustion in students during online classes, while technostress could further it. Moreover, technostress creators could act as moderators on the effect of sociability on emotional exhaustion. These effects are tested with the help of a study with 592 participants, discovering that the sociability in online classes has an effect on how emotionally exhausted the students are. The antecedent technostress also has an effect on emotional exhaustion, thus furthering it. This paper contributes to the information systems (IS) literature by showing how students are affected by constant ICT use

Justifying Shadow IT Usage

Employees and/or functional managers increasingly adopt and use IT systems and services that the IS management of the organization does neither provide nor approve. To effectively counteract such shadow IT in organizations, the understanding of employees’ motivations and drivers is necessary. However, the scant literature on this topic primarily focused on various governance approaches at firm level. With the objective to open the black box of shadow IT usage at the individual unit of analysis, we develop a research model and propose a laboratory experiment to examine users’ justifications for violating implicit and explicit IT usage restrictions based on neutralization theory. To be precise, in this research-in-progress, we posit positive associations between shadow IT usage and human tendencies to downplay such kind of rule-breaking behaviors due to necessity, no injury, and injustice. We expect a lower impact of these neutralization effects in the presence of behavioral IT guidelines that explicitly prohibit users to employ exactly those shadow IT systems

The Attitude Construct in IT Adoption Research – A Scientometric Analysis

Understanding user’s attitudes represents one of the major objectives in IS adoption research. However, in some IS adoption models, as the most famous representative the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the relationship between user’s attitude and behavioral intention was found to be insignificant and was therefore excluded from later modifications of the respective models (e.g. TAM II and the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology). Some authors in IS adoption literature indicate that there are operational and conceptual misconceptions of the attitude construct in IS adoption literature. To provide more information for this discussion within this paper, the descriptive results of a scientometric survey of fourteen IS top journals spanning 20 years and 147 articles, are presented with regards to the socio psychological grounding of attitude research. Several situational factors of adoption situations in literature e.g. adoption context or voluntariness of usage were captured in the data in order to analyze the occurrence of each characteristic in IS adoption models with reference to their influence on the attitude construct

Online Learning Fatigue in Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic – An Empirical Study with High School Students

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant effect on every age group, including high school students. They were forced to be constantly connected to ICTs in online lessons instead of attending in-class lessons. A consequence of the continuous exposure to ICTs is the occurrence of technostress enhancing individuals’ emotional exhaustion. As part of this research, the effect of emotional exhaustion on high school students is studied. A survey that was carried out within schools in Austria and Germany with 592 participants shows the effect of emotional exhaustion as a driver for students’ online learning fatigue. Online learning fatigue is characterized as lower mental and operational effectiveness to learn and study online. These findings can be used in research and practice to improve students’ lives during these times