Abstract
Improving the impact of information technology (IT) investments is potentially beneficial for our society. This study identifies triggers which influence behavior of organizational agents on managing IT. In scope of this study are the portfolio decisions regarding where to invest the IT euro, the management of IT projects and the management of the IT infrastructure. Following the theory of planned behavior, it is shown for controllers of Dutch organizations that ‘intention’ is positively associated with behavior and that ‘subjective norm’ and ‘perceived behavior control’ are positively associated with intention. For portfolio and IT infrastructure management, attitude is also positively associated with intention. Overall it is concluded that the most important levers for behavior for the focus areas are ‘social pressure’ and the explicit confirmation of the agent’s own intention. This is good news since both can be easily influenced without significant monetary investment.
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van der Pas, M., Walczuch, R. (2019). Behavior of Organizational Agents on Managing Information Technology. In: Arai, K., Kapoor, S., Bhatia, R. (eds) Intelligent Computing. SAI 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 857. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01177-2_57
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