Article ID: | iaor20023100 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 39 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 513 |
End Page Number: | 524 |
Publication Date: | May 2002 |
Journal: | Information and Management |
Authors: | Lederer Albert L., Sethi Vijay, Basu Vedabrata, Hartono Edward |
Keywords: | organization, computers: information |
Organizational commitment, senior management involvement, and team involvement are typically expected to have a positive impact on the achievement of strategic information systems planning objectives. That is, more commitment and involvement should produce greater success. However, they might also have a quadratic impact, specifically an inverted-U relationship such that after they reach an optimum, the achievement of the objectives diminishes. A postal survey about planning practices and objectives produced usable data from 105 corporate information systems planners. Senior management involvement predicted the achievement of the objectives in a positive manner whereas organizational commitment predicted it in an inverted-U relationship. Future research should look more closely at these relationships. Planners should be more aware of the possibly detrimental effects of excessive planning.