TY - GEN
T1 - Comparison of approaches to the measurement of IT value
AU - Alpar, Paul
AU - Kim, Moshe
PY - 1990
Y1 - 1990
N2 - The measurement of information technology (IT) value by calculating key ratios of IT intensity and relating them to key ratios of firm performance is compared with a more rigorous approach of cost functions based on microeconomic theory. Both procedures are applied to the same set of data from the banking industry. The results show that reasoning about IT impact based on key ratios may be misleading, especially when the figures are only calculated for a cross-section of the data.
AB - The measurement of information technology (IT) value by calculating key ratios of IT intensity and relating them to key ratios of firm performance is compared with a more rigorous approach of cost functions based on microeconomic theory. Both procedures are applied to the same set of data from the banking industry. The results show that reasoning about IT impact based on key ratios may be misleading, especially when the figures are only calculated for a cross-section of the data.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0025252853
SN - 0818620110
T3 - Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Science
SP - 112
EP - 119
BT - Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Science
A2 - Hoevel, Lee W.
A2 - Shriver, Bruce D.
A2 - Nunamaker, Jay F.Jr.
A2 - Sprague, Ralph H.Jr.
A2 - Milutinovic, Velijko
PB - Publ by Western Periodicals Co
T2 - Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Volume 1: Architecture Track
Y2 - 2 January 1990 through 5 January 1990
ER -