Developing a model of the global and strategic impact of information technology

Abstract

In today's intensely competitive world, many firms have developed applications of information technology (IT) that provide a significant global competitive advantage. Most evidence of such IT use is anecdotal; the global competitive impact of IT has not been studied from a rigorous theory building or empirical perspective. This article reports progress toward the development of a model (called GLITS) to measure the strategic global impact of IT on an international firm. The underpinnings of the model are based on domestic and international literature; and it has undergone extensive refinement through statistical evaluation and validation. The model and its accompanying instrument can be used to identify specific strategic IT factors for a company and a contingency analysis can be conducted to determine the importance of various factors based on organizational characteristics. This foundational model should have significant utility for both practitioners and researchers.

Impacto dos investimentos em Tecnologia da Informação (TI) nas variáveis estratégicas das empresas prestadoras de serviços contábeis

“…Palvia (1997) Redução de risco, outsoursing, transferência de conhecimento, operações fl exíveis, recursos, requisitos de governos e países, recursos humanos, alianças e crescimento, fuso horário, coordenação, integração, SI, geral.…”

Adoption of Electronic Commerce by Organizations in India: Strategic and Environmental Imperatives

“…These policies are to a large extent, determined by the government. They include the legal and regulatory framework (Markus and Soh, 2002;Tractinsky and Jarvenpaa, 1995;Gallupe and Tan, 1999), laws governing and regulating internet usage (Markus and Soh, 2002), industry specific economic incentives such as reduced taxes (Mennecke and West, 2001) and national development priorities with respect to the allocation of human and economic resources for IT development (Palvia, 1997;Ein Dor et al, 1993). These policies influence to a large extent the nature of markets and industry competition, which in turn significantly influences the adoption of EC (Mennecke and West, 2001;Deans and Ricks, 1993;Markus and Soh, 2002).…”

O impacto da tecnologia de informação na estratégia dos bancos

“…Os artigos que utilizam essa teoria procuram identificar a capacidade da TI em alterar a maneira de as empresas operarem, em transformar a cadeia de valor e em apoiar a implementação de estratégias (Mahmood e Soon, 1991). A base teórica da pesquisa está fundamentada em dois modelos distintos, desenvolvidos por Mahmood e Soon (1991) e por Palvia (1997). O primeiro mede o impacto da TI nas variáveis estratégicas organizacionais em contexto nacional.…”

“…Kempis et al (1999) ressaltam que a avaliação de investimentos em TI não pode restringirse a uma simples análise financeira, devendo incorporar outros métodos de análise. Uma das formas propostas por diversos autores (Mahmood e Soon, 1991;Palvia, 1997;Maçada et al, 2000) consiste na análise dos impactos desses investimentos em variáveis estratégicas organizacionais. Dedrick e Kraemer (1995) afirmam que poucas pesquisas em Sistemas de Informação (SI) comparam dados entre países no contexto organizacional.…”