What a Difference a Year Makes: Time Lag Effect of Information Technology Investment on Firm Performance

Evaluation of information technology impact on bank’s performance: The Ghanaian experience

“…Few recent studies Lichtenberg 20 and Brynjolfsson and Hitt 21 have suggested the opposite, thus the link between IT and productivity is positive and strong. This controversy among the literatures bequeathed birth to “The Productivity Paradox.” 22 –31 Per the review of the previous literature, one can say that the IT performance relationship begins from sturdily positive, too weak, and finally to no connection at all. As suggested by Brynjolfsson 4 and Hitt and Brynjolfsson, 17 the inconsistency in the conclusion drawn by various authors in the IT productivity was the lack of good measuring tools, which was mostly parametric models.…”

EHR Adoption and Hospital Performance: Time‐Related Effects

“…The longer that a hospital has been working with EHR functions, the more likely it is to have gained intraorganizational experience that can be applied to implementation of future EHR functions and increase the resulting benefits (Zhou et al. ; Campbell ). For example, the hospital may have established change management processes, and hospital staff may have greater technological familiarity (Brynjolfsson ).…”

Portfolio of IT investment and organisational performance. Moderating role of decentralised decision making

“…• One of the most pressing theoretical gaps in the area of the productivity paradox is the 'emphasis on US firms' and 'lack of cross-country studies', so it is 'results are conditional on the characteristics of the US business environment' (Melville et al, 2004). Some researchers argue that IT investment relates indirectly to a firm's performance through contextual factor (Campbell, 2012), such as country characteristics (Lin and Chiang, 2011). Studying Malaysian companies will partly address this imbalance.…”