Office automation benefits: A framework

Maggiolini, Piercarlo

doi:10.1016/0378-7206(86)90049-2

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“…It should be noted that efforts were made to incorporate an assessment of such benefits in the financial methods, along with benefits that we could classify as difficult to quantify or intangible, such as better customer service, loyalty, etc. Some such proposals have been made by several authors [21]. Table 2 also shows the little regard for components related to contractual procedure benefits by the companies in the study.…”

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Validity of a Model Based on Transaction Costs in Identifying the Benefits of IOS: The Electronic Data Interchange Case

Maggiolini¹,

Vallès²

2012

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Company competitiveness often depends on key relationships with other companies and information tech-nologies play a critical role in supporting these relationships. Nevertheless, tools to analyse the impact of technology on businesses are in short supply. This article presents the results of research performed in companies in the mass consumer industry aimed at verifying the validity of a proposed model based on transaction costs, to be used for impact evaluation of inter-organizational systems in companies. The model, which takes into account different kinds of benefits, is applied in an exploratory way to the identification of benefits from using electronic data interchange systems as an e-commerce tool to support business to business relationships. Verification of the proposed model confirms its usefulness for the identification of benefits, mainly for those occurring at the inter-organizative level.Postprint (published version

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Validity of a Model Based on Transaction Costs in Identifying the Benefits of IOS: The Electronic Data Interchange Case

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2012

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“…Otherwise, the profession will be forced to seek entry-level talent elsewhere (Williams, 1996). Various bodies of practitioners and academics have encouraged the university to re-orient and re-engineer accounting education towards the development of problem solving, critical thinking, communication skills, and Information Technology knowledge and skills (see AAA, 1986;Maggiolini, 1986;Helmi, 1986;Arthur Anderson et al, 1989;Hermanson, et al, 1989;AECC, 1990aAECC, , 1990bMay, et al, 1995). In 1984, the American Accounting Association appointed a committee to study the future structure, content and scope of accounting education (the Bedford Committee), which issued a report entitled "Future Accounting Education: Preparing for the Expanding Profession," in 1986.…”

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The level of IT/IS skills in accounting programmes in British universities

Ahmed

2003

Management Research News

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Accountants and the accounting profession have always been users of information technology and the claim for enlarging levels of Information Technology/Information Systems (IT/IS) skills/knowledge in practitioners and accounting graduates is more powerful than ever. The use of Information Technology in support of business is widespread and becoming more so. Indeed, it is no longer possible to meet the expectations of users of financial and other business performance information without using Information Technology tools. Both academics and practitioners have recognised the value and importance of IT/IS in the achievement of success in the competitive business world and IT/IS skills/knowledge as being essential to longterm success for accountants. The challenges facing organisations now require the skills of a special kind of accountant, this research called the “Hybrid Accountant” (combining IT/IS competencies and mainstream accounting capabilities). A “hybrid” accountant blends different skills and knowledge of business management and information management. It is generally felt that today’s accounting education process fails to develop accountants who are able to serve in this type of demanding accountant.

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“…It has been in the top ten list of critical IS problems since 1980 (Ball & Harris, 1982;Dickson et al, 1984;Hartog & Herbert, 1986;Brancheau & Wetherbe, 1987;Haga & Zviran, 1993). Senior line managers and IS managers wonder whether they are getting a pay-off from their investment in information systems, especially since the arrival of the personal computer (Strassmann, 1985;Bowen, 1986;Maginnis, 1986;Pournelle, 1987;LaPlante, 1988). General managers surveyed recently (Brancheau & Wetherbe, 1987) ranked the measuring of IS effectiveness as the fourth most critical problem they face in managing information systems.…”

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“…The definition of effectiveness in IS has itself been a topic of considerable research and discussion (Carlson, 1974;Radecki, 1975;Ginzberg, 1978;King & Schrems, 1978;Kleijnen, 1979;Chandler, 1982;Markus & Robey, 1983;Maggiolini, 1986;Dominick, 1987;Trice & Treacy, 1988). Most researchers are in agreement that IS effectiveness focuses on the organizational effects produced by information systems.…”

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Information systems effectiveness: research designs for causal inference

Haga

Zviran

1994

Information Systems Journal

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This paper examines the capacity of the research designs of 37empirical studies of information systems (IS) effectiveness to provide a basis for the development of theories about behaviour related to I S effectiveness. The power of each study to support causal inference was evaluated in terms of (a) its handling of the time dimension, (b) its ability to weigh differences and (c) its resistance to internal validity threats that pose alternative explanations for its reported findings. Of the reviewed studies, 29.7% could account for the time dimension, 32.4% employed a comparison group and 16.2% were not susceptible to any internal validity threats. Only 13.5% of the studies combined an accounting for the time dimension with the use of a comparison group. Of these, however, only 5.4% were also invulnerable to internal validity threats. The research designs of nearly 95% of these published studies were deficient in supporting causal inference. In those studies, suggestions that one variable was causally related to another variable could not be substantiated. Encouragement for the future capacity of IS effectiveness research to support causal inference was found in a trend towards the use of quasiexperimental designs. Recommendations are made regarding ways to increase the inferential capacity of research designs employed in the study of IS effectiveness.

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Office automation benefits: A framework

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Validity of a Model Based on Transaction Costs in Identifying the Benefits of IOS: The Electronic Data Interchange Case

Validity of a Model Based on Transaction Costs in Identifying the Benefits of IOS: The Electronic Data Interchange Case

The level of IT/IS skills in accounting programmes in British universities

Information systems effectiveness: research designs for causal inference

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