Businesses invested around a trillion dollars in information technology (IT) in the 198Os, and the trend continues into the nineties. Although investments in IT have reached 50% of capital expenditures, their impact on the bottom line has not been clearly established. The pay-off from information technology (llJ has eluded both managers and researchers. This paper reports some preliminary resul...

Does information technology outsourcing reduce non-IT operating costs? This study examines this question and also asks whether internal IT investments moderate the relationship between IT outsourcing and non-IT operating costs. Using a panel data set of approximately 300 U.S. firms from 1999 to 2003, we find that IT outsourcing has a significant negative association with firms’ non-IT operating...

Empirical and analytic research in the IT and economics literatures have paid little attention to the distinction between the goals of cost reduction and quality improvement when examining the impact of IT investments on firm performance (i.e., firm profits and productivity). In this paper we present a simple analytical model that examines the impact of various types of IT investments on the qu...

NSF’s mission is “to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; [and] to secure the national defense.” Although NSF receives less than 5% of the federal research and development (R&D) budget, it has a leading role in advancing U.S. science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). In addition to providing necessary support for large scale re...

Recent calls for value in the US healthcare system have spurred an increase in comparative effectiveness research, which generates evidence on competing treatment options to inform healthcare stakeholders. As a large healthcare purchaser, the federal government has made several significant investments in comparative effectiveness research. Notably, in 2009 the American Recovery and Reinvestment...

Given the substantive investments that governments are making in information technology and the development of e-government channels to improve interactions with citizens, there is increasing interest in determining whether these investments are paying off, and encouraging citizen use of and migration to less costly e-channels. For research on e-government to advance, it is imperative that we g...

Few organizations have been able to realize value from their investments in business analytics. This could be due to an inadequate understanding of the pattern of investments required to realize value from business analytics. Specifically, we propose that business analytics requires an upfront investment of infrastructure capital to build a mature platform, followed by multiple investments of i...

Prior research demonstrated that firms invest in IS to create competitive advantage. Nevertheless, many firms are forced to invest in IS to comply with government regulations, regardless if the investment promises competitive advantage or not. A recent example is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which required many firms to upgrade their systems. Surprisingly enough, firms sometimes realise that such ma...

The value relevance of announcements of transformational information technology investments." Mis Quarterly (2003): 637-656. Abstract In this paper, we examine the influence of IT strategic role to extend the findings of Im et al. Specifically, we demonstrate that IT strategic role can explain how IT investments in each of the IT strategic roles might affect the firm's competitive position and ...