IT Adoption and Organizational Slack: An Experimental Study of Manufacturing Firms and Service Firms

Author

Yuanyuan, Chen ; Zhongying, Qi

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China

Volume

2

fYear

2011

fDate

26-27 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

281

Lastpage

284

Abstract

This study discusses the change of organizational slack in the process of IT adoption and contrasts the organizational slack of manufacturing with service industry. It analyzes how IT affects companies in the perspective of organization slack. It tests hypotheses using finance data (1994-2008) from 196 manufacturing listed companies and 180 service listed companies in China. The results indicate there is higher unabsorbed slack in the initial stage of IT adoption, and there is higher absorbed slack in the run-in stage of IT adoption. In the run-in stage of IT adoption absorbed slack of service industry is higher than manufacturing industry.

Keywords

manufacturing data processing; manufacturing industries; organisational aspects; service industries; China; IT adoption; manufacturing firms; manufacturing industry; manufacturing listed companies; organizational slack; service firms; service industry; service listed companies; Companies; Manufacturing; Manufacturing industries; Marketing and sales; Technological innovation; Information Technology Adoption; Manufacturing Frims; Organizational Slack; Service Firms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering (ICIII), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-450-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIII.2011.214

Filename

6116750