Complementarities of effective individual it use: Preliminary results
2016 (English)In: 24th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2016, Association for Information Systems, 2016, article id 44Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
This paper presents preliminary results from an ongoing empirical study that seeks to understand the relationship between IT-complementary factors and the individual productivity of information workers. Although there is substantial evidence of positive IT complementarity effects on productivity at macro-, meso-, and micro-levels of the economy, we still lack knowledge on the configuration of these factors at the individual level. To investigate this gap, we have designed a new research model of an information worker's individual productivity when an IT system is used jointly and synchronously with both individual and organizational factors. The model is tested in a longitudinal field study of sales operations of an international pharmaceutical company with a multi sub-case setup. While we continue to collect data, preliminary findings from difference-in-difference analysis are presented here and demonstrate that the introduction of a "full" set of IT complementarities has had a positive and significant effect on the number of sales calls performed.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Information Systems, 2016. article id 44
Keywords [en]
Individual productivity, IT complementarity, Sales operations, Information systems, Sales, Difference-in-differences, Information workers, Longitudinal field study, Organizational factors, Pharmaceutical company, Sales operation, Productivity
National Category
Information Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-40005Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84995741775OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-40005DiVA, id: diva2:1387959
Conference
24th European Conference on Information Systems, Istanbul, June 12-15, 2016.
2020-01-232020-01-232025-10-07Bibliographically approved