Within the last four decades, IS and business scholars have shown a growing interest in information technology (IT) investments. As firms continue to make huge investments in IT, it is important to understand how IT provides competitive advantages to the firms. However, the direct effects of IT in creating business advantages are riddled with the productivity paradox. In this research, our goal...

For several years researchers & practitioners have been concerned about the impact of investments in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) on productivity. The research framework of neoclassical growth accounting is widely used in this area of research on IT & Productivity. While several studies have explored the relationship between investments in ICT and metrics such as GDP, the link...

Determining whether investments in information technology (IT) have beneficial effects on an organization is an area of research that continues to interest academics, managers, and investors. Our study contributes to this line of research by examining the effect of investments in IT on the risk profiles of a sample of companies. Additionally, we examine whether different types of IT investments...

This research aims to advance understanding of how investments in Information Technologies (IT) impact on firm performance by developing and testing an advanced model of IT business value. Research so far has provided incomplete and controversial evidence as to the difference that IT investments made on firms’ performance. This research adopts a novel multi-method research approach that combine...

The role of complementary investments in successful implementation of information technology is now widely accepted. However, for information technology implemented in collaborative arrangements such as supply chain partners, complementary investments may lead to successful implementation yet prove insufficient in creating the expected value. Our research in the implementation of Collaborative ...

For several years researchers & practitioners have been concerned about the impact of investments in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) on productivity. The research framework of neoclassical growth accounting is widely used in this area of research on IT & Productivity. While several studies have explored the relationship between investments in ICT and metrics such as GDP, the link...

The output of investments in Information Systems and Technologies (IST) has been a topic of debate among the IST research community. The “Productivity Paradox of IST Investments” sustains that the investment in IST does not increase productivity. Some researchers showed that developed countries have been having a rather stable and sometimes declining economic growth despite their efforts in Res...

BACKGROUND Total domestic and international funding for malaria is inadequate to achieve WHO global targets in burden reduction by 2030. We describe the trends of investments in malaria-related research in sub-Saharan Africa and compare investment with national disease burden to identify areas of funding strength and potentially neglected populations. We also considered funding for malaria cont...

The business investments in IT show a stable growth even tough the international financial crisis stopped them for quite a small period of time. Still, the evaluation of IT investments impact onto business performance remains a low-structured problem and very often represents an expert, qualitative and not formalized procedure. From this point of view this research in progress paper presents th...

Decisions of health care institutions to invest in nursing care are often guided by mixed and conflicting evidence of effects of the investments on organizational function and sustainability. This paper uses new evidence generated through Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI)-funded research and published in peer-reviewed journals, to illustrate where the business case f...