An examination of the organizational impact of business intelligence and big data based on management theory

Abstract

Big data and big data analytics have been considered to be a disruptive technologythat will rebuild business intelligence. The purpose of this study is to enrich the literature onthe organizational impact of business intelligence and big data based on management theory.While the majority of the organizational theories have had research dedicated to enhance theunderstanding of the impact of business intelligence and big data on organizational performanceand decision-making, the research lacks scholarly work capable of identifying the other mainorganizational outcomes. To achieve this goal, a semi-systematic literature review was carriedout to find all studies related to the research topic. Then, an analysis was conducted tounderstand the use of the organizational theory in accordance with business intelligence andbig data. Finally, a grouping was developed to assign each organizational theory the relatedimpact. The main findings of this work, after examining thirty-three related organizationaltheories, was that there are other important organizational impacts including innovation,agility, adoption, and supply-chain support.