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| Title: | IOS ASSIMILATION STRATEGIES: AN EMPIRICAL APPRAISAL |
| Authors: | Truman, Gregory E. |
| Issue Date: | 1995 |
| Publisher: | Stern School of Business, New York University |
| Series/Report no.: | IS-95-16 |
| Abstract: | Interorganizational information systems (IOS) are increasingly relied on
to facilitate the electronic exchange of data among organizations.
Though substantive progress by the research community toward
understanding IOS technology has been made, one unattended issue is
understanding more fully the efficacy of alternative management
strategies for assimilating IOS into organizational processes. Referred
to here as IOS assimilation strategies, these strategies may offer to
management useful alternatives for planning for and proceeding with IOS
implementation. Conceptually based on Keen's (1991) notions of
"reach" and "range" regarding organizations'
computing infrastructure, two IOS Assimilation Strategies are tested for
their comparative effects on three efficiency and six effectiveness
measures. The empirical results, based on data from forty-eight
organizations of the Group Insurance industry and the nonparametric
Friedman test for significance testing, indicate that a significantly
different ranking on the efficiency measures occurs across groups
inhering varying strengths of IOS use pursuant to the alternative IOS
Assimilation Strategies. The results suggest that greater efficiency
gains may obtain by pursuing a strategy to extend IOS range over IOS
reach. Consequently, management is advised to weigh carefully which IOS
benefits, in terms of efficiency and effectiveness, are more important
for substantiating IOS investments, and to make decisions regarding IOS
implementation accordingly. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/14223 |
| Appears in Collections: | IOMS: Information Systems Working Papers
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