Article ID: | iaor20002668 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 45 |
Issue: | 7 |
Start Page Number: | 1008 |
End Page Number: | 1024 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1999 |
Journal: | Management Science |
Authors: | Konsynski Benn R., Bharadwaj Anandhi S., Bharadwaj Sundar G. |
Keywords: | information |
Despite increasing anecdotal evidence that information technology (IT) assets contribute to firm performance and future growth potential of firms, the empirical results relating IT investments to firm performance measures have been equivocal. However, the bulk of the studies have relied exclusively on accounting-based measures of firm performance, which largely tend to ignore IT's contribution to performance dimensions such as strategic flexibility and intangible value. In this paper, we use Tobin's