The Role of Information Systems Resources in ERP Capability Building and Business Process Outcomes

Automating and informating: roles to examine technology’s impact on performance

“…The automating and informating effects have been used as mediating variables between the system's capacities and performance although at the processes or organizational level (Karimi, Somers, & Bhattacherjee, 2007;Uwizeyemungu & Raymond, 2012). Less attention has been paid to the effect of these roles on the relationship between technological factors and usefulness at the individual level.…”

Resource Co-Specialization, Firm Growth, and Organizational Performance: An Empirical Analysis of Organizational Restructuring and it Implementations

“…Since the immediate effects of IT manifest themselves in process improvements, more conclusive results are expected when IT investments are related to process outcomes (Mukhopadhyay, Rajiv, and Srinivasan, 1997;Segars, Grover, and Teng, 1998). Research studies utilizing immediate performance measures such as process efficiency and project outcomes have reported more consistent results, although only a small number of such studies have been undertaken (Karimi, Somers, and Bhattacherjee, 2007;Ravichandran and Lertworngsatien, 2005).…”

“…In a resource-based analysis of IT investment and firm per-formance, Clemons and Row (1991) advanced a commodity view of IT, maintaining that competitive imitation eventually erodes most IT-based advantages, and that above-normal returns to IT investments eventually dissipate. The strategic necessity hypothesis that IT investments per se do not generate sustainable performance advantages has received increasing support in recent empirical studies (Aral and Weill, 2007;Karimi, Somers and Bhattacherjee, 2007;Raganathan and Brown, 2006;Ray, Muhanna and Barney, 2005;Ravichandran and Lertwongsatien, 2005). This hypothesis consists of two elements:…”

“…Many firms have begun to develop information management strategies that focus on IT as a strategic resource to facilitate effective collection and utilization of information (Karimi, Somers and Bhattacherjee, 2007;Ray, Muhanna and Barney, 2005;Tippins and Sohi, 2003).…”

Preserving Knowledge on IS Business Value

“…IT capital-related studies (Hitt and Brynjolfsson 1994;Barua et al 1995;Rai et al 1997;Tam 1998;Sircar et al 2000;Mahmood and Mann 2005) find no correlation with stock market behavior, mixed results regarding profitability ratios, and a positive correlation with profitability in terms of "sales" and "value added". Some studies (Kelley 1994;Rai et al 1997) are even more specialized and analyze the impact of hardware expenditures or expenditures based on investments in software (Rai et al 1997), production-oriented software (Barua et al 1995), interorganizational information systems (Schumann 1990), ERP systems (Poston and Grabski 2000;Hayes et al 2001;Karimi et al 2007), e-commerce systems (Subramani and Walden 2001), supply chain systems (Kim et al 2006), knowledge management systems (Maier and Hädrich 2001) or infrastructure (Rai et al 1997;Byrd and Turner 2000;Chatterjee et al 2002). The studies differ enormously in methods, data, time period, and indicators used.…”