ABSTRACT

As information systems (IS) age, managers must determine whether to continue upgrading these systems or replace them with systems that have greater potential to offer organizational value. Given the widespread use of information systems and the challenges that IS replacement can present, understanding the forces that encourage managers to continue to upgrade existing systems is of considerable organizational importance. Hence, drawing on prior work we identify factors related to the value a system brings to an organization, the degree of organizational commitment to the system, and the evolvability of the system that influence managerial upgrade decisions. Data collected via a cross-sectional survey of IS managers was analyzed using Partial Least Squares. Analysis of this data indicates that IS managers have a preference for upgrading systems that provide greater organizational value, suffer from fewer shortcomings, are more complex, less customized, and for which support is readily available.

摘要

随着信息系统 (IS) 的老化，管理人员必须确定是继续升级这些系统，还是用具有更大潜力提供组织价值的系统替换它们。鉴于信息系统的广泛使用以及信息系统替代可能带来的挑战，了解鼓励管理人员继续升级现有系统的力量对于组织来说非常重要。因此，利用先前的工作，我们确定了与系统为组织带来的价值、组织对系统的承诺程度以及系统的可演化性相关的因素，这些因素会影响管理升级决策。通过对 IS 经理的横断面调查收集的数据使用偏最小二乘法进行分析。