Exploring top managers' innovative IT (IIT) championing behavior: Integrating the personal and technical contexts

  • Authors:
  • Tung-Ching Lin;Yi-Cheng Ku;Yu-Shan Huang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Information and Management
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

Innovative information technologies (IIT) will create or improve a product and enhance intra-organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Based on the TOE framework and upper echelon theory, this study investigated the relationships between top managers' individual differences and IIT championing behavior from two perspectives: the personal context and the technical context. An empirical survey was administered to 130 top managers to test the research model. The results reveal that 52.6% of the variance in top managers' IIT championing behavior can be explained by three antecedent variables: the OSL, IIT absorptive capacity, and involvement. Finally, the implications for practitioners and researchers are discussed.