An empirical study on the effect of information system innovation usage on performance: Based on the innovation climate perspective

Enterprises increasingly have to depend on the innovation behaviors to get the best organizational performance from information systems. The objective of this paper is to contribute to a deeper understanding of information system innovation usage in enterprises by examining its effect to enterprise performance and its determinant factors. Based on the organizational innovation climate and exploitation & exploration innovation theories from organizational management literature, the paper develops a research model of information system innovation usage. Then with the questionnaires from approximately two hundreds enterprises in Chinese economy, this proposed model is empirically tested. Research results show that organizational innovational climate is positively associated with two types of information system innovation usage, and exploitation of information system innovation usage influence on short-term performance, and exploration of information system innovation usage influence on long-term performance. Some implications are given in the end of paper.