The impact of organizational intervention on system usage extent

• Published in: Industrial management + data systems 2010-04, Vol.110 (4), p.532-549
• Main Authors: Chang, Kuo-Chung, Lie, Ting, Fan, Ming-Liang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Enterprise resource planning; Hypotheses; Information systems; Management; Management strategy; Monitoring systems; Organizational behavior; System monitoring; Systems analysis; Technical support
• ISSN: 0263-5577; 1758-5783
• DOI: 10.1108/02635571011039016

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to advance our understanding of the concept of system usage and identify determinants at the organizational level that are attributable to the extent of system usage in the post-adoptive and compulsory milieu.Design methodology approach - The paper intends to examine the organizational intervention on system usage extent. Unlike previous studies, this research adopts a feature-centered approach to examine the construct of system usage extent, and proposes that organizational supports such as management support and technical support impact the individual system usage extent.Findings - Results show that technical support from the organization, specifically technical assistance and technical consulting channels, have a positive impact on system usage extent; however, management support does not show a significant effect. A post hoc analysis is conducted in an attempt to explicate the relationships between organization interventions and the feature usage of particular systems.Originality value - The paper has the following implications. First, this study discusses system usage extent from a feature-centered perspective and develops a method to assess the degree of system usage. Second, the scheme for evaluating system usage extent developed in our study can be used to measure the actual system usage. Lastly, an ad hoc correlation analysis was performed to provide a detailed understanding of the relationship between organizational initiatives.