Leveraging the new infrastructure: how market leaders capitalize on information technology
Leveraging the new infrastructure: how market leaders capitalize on information technology
Information and Management
Information and Management
CIO influence behaviors: the impact of technical background
Information and Management
Examining possible antecedents of IT impact on the supply chain and its effect on firm performance
Information and Management
CEO Characteristics and Firm R&D Spending
Management Science
IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results
IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results
Information technology payoff in the health-care industry: a longitudinal study
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Impacts of information technology investment on organizational performance
International Journal of Business Information Systems
Information Resources Management Journal
What are the roles of software product managers? An empirical investigation
Journal of Systems and Software
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The literature of the past three decades has not provided a consistent picture of payback for IT investment. Firm strategies and infrastructure play a part in determining return on investment and, in recent years, chief information officer (CIO) characteristics have been cited as essential factors in ensuring economic returns for IT investment. In our study we related CIO background and attitude toward IT investment to the objective measures of a firm's performance. The financial measures tended to be higher when the CIO was from IT rather than general management, however, an IT manager in a firm that had a strategic orientation to IT rather than a utilitarian one was more likely to have higher financial performance. Thus, although a CIO should have a technological background, the CIO who has a strategic rather than utilitarian orientation is more likely to help in forming a highly profitable company.