Organizational impact of system quality, information quality, and service quality

  • Authors:

  • Narasimhaiah Gorla;Toni M. Somers;Betty Wong

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Management Information Systems, American University of Sharjah, PO Box: 26666, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates;Wayne State University, Department of Information Systems and Manufacturing, 5201 Cass Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202, United States;Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hum, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Increased organizational dependence on information systems drives management attention towards improving information systems' quality. A recent survey shows that ''Improve IT quality'' is one of the top concerns facing IT executives. As IT quality is a multidimensional measure, it is important to determine what aspects of IT quality are critical to organizations to help Chief Information Officers (CIOs) to devise effective IT quality improvement strategies. In this research, we model the relationship between information systems' (IS) quality and organizational impact. We hypothesize greater organizational impact in situations in which system quality, information quality and service quality are high. We also hypothesize a positive relationship between system quality and information quality. We test our hypotheses using survey data. Our structural equation model exhibits a good fit with the observed data. Our results show that IS service quality is the most influential variable in this model (followed by information quality and system quality), thus highlighting the importance of IS service quality for organizational performance. This paper contributes theoretically to IS success models through the system quality-to-information quality and IS quality-to-organizational impact links. Implications of our results for practice and research are discussed.