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Finance Information Systems Usage in Universities in a Developing Country: Implementing Factors and Their Influence on Use

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Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2017)

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Finance information systems (FISs) store and provide timely, accurate and consistent financial data for management and decision-making. Many organizations especially in developing world however fail to attain desired success during implementation and usage of the FISs despite the fact that many success factors for implementation have been suggested. This study thus investigated the usage of FISs with the aim of finding out how factors presumed to influence implementation impact usage. The presumed factors included; top management support, effective communication, evaluation of staff performance, technical support, project management, change management program, effectiveness of IT unit and flexibility of consultants. The study focused on universities in Uganda which is a developing country. Of the nine factors that were investigated only top management support, technical training and flexibility of consultants exhibited a positive impact with only top management support being significant. The rest of the factors exhibited negative impact and only effective IT unit being significant.

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  1. Department of Informatics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Ole Römers Väg 6, Lund, Sweden

    David Kiwana & Björn Johansson

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Kiwana, D., Johansson, B. (2017). Finance Information Systems Usage in Universities in a Developing Country: Implementing Factors and Their Influence on Use. In: Johansson, B., Møller, C., Chaudhuri, A., Sudzina, F. (eds) Perspectives in Business Informatics Research. BIR 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 295. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64930-6_16

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