Antecedent Determinants of Beliefs Underpinning the Intention to Accept and Use Business Intelligence Systems: the Importance of Organizational Factors

By drawing together the implications from several streams of IS research, addressing the critical research question posed extensively in IS literature, this study identifies the antecedents of individual’s behavioral and normative beliefs that shape intentions to use Business Intelligence Systems (BIS), explaining how those internal motivations are formed. Our comprehensive model of antecedents captures a wide range of factors including individual and organizational factors that can impact the formation of favourable beliefs triggering BIS use intentions, reflecting the specifics and nature of BIS use. The model was tested and analysed with SEM-PLS based on survey data gathered from employees of mediumand large-sized organizations. The results of our study provide several theoretical and practical implications showing that besides the self-efficacy belief entailing individual characteristics, organizational factors either directly or indirectly through building of proactive information culture impact the individual’s internal schema of considerations that shape their intentions to use BIS.