A Detailed and Extended Study on the relationship among IT Investment, Organisational Characteristics and Firm Performance

• Project/Area Number: 24530428
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Business administration
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: HIRANO Masaaki 早稲田大学, 商学学術院, 教授 (00165193)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
• Keywords: 組織特性 / IT投資 / 経営成果 / IT支出 / 組織IQ / 補完性 / 非対称補完性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Two important results were obtained through the research.
First, the analysis of detailed organisational capabilities, IT investment and firm performance resulted in three main results: (1) that External Information Awareness and Internal Knowledge Dissemination are complementary to IT investment, (2) that Organisational Focus and Continuous Innovation are not significantly related to IT investment, and (3) that Effective Decision Architecture is substitutive to IT investment. The third result is especially important in the sense that IT investment does not automatically cause more delegation and/or decentralisation, which is against the conventional wisdom.
Secondly, since the data for economic census became available during the research period, a new research methodology was researched and confirmed as a valid approach.

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Oxford(英国)
• [Journal Article] Can IT Augment Organisational Capabilities? ―Empirical Evidences from Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluations― (2015)
  • Author(s): Masaaki HIRANO
  • Journal Title: Journal of the Japan Society for Management Information Volume: Vol.24, No.2 Pages: 175-190
  • NAID: 40020594217
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] DOES IT AUGMENT ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES (OR VICE VERSA)? –IMPLICATIONS FROM JAPANESE DATA (2016)
  • Author(s): Masaaki HIRANO and Roger GOODMAN
  • Organizer: Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems 2016
  • Place of Presentation: Chiayi, Taiwan
  • Year and Date: 2016-06-28
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] A Sequel: Can IT Augment Organisational Capabilities? (2015)
  • Author(s): Masaaki HIRANO
  • Organizer: JPAIS/JASMIN International Meeting 2015
  • Place of Presentation: Fort Worth Convention Center
  • Year and Date: 2015-12-13
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] IT投資と組織能力との関係に関する省察 (2015)
  • Author(s): 平野雅章
  • Organizer: 経営情報学会2015年秋季全国研究発表大会
  • Place of Presentation: 沖縄コンベンションセンター
  • Year and Date: 2015-11-28
• [Presentation] Can IT Augment Organisational Capabilities? (2014)
  • Author(s): HIRANO, Masaaki
  • Organizer: JPAIS/JASMIN Annual International Conference 2014
  • Place of Presentation: University of Auckland, Auckland
  • Year and Date: 2014-12-13
• [Presentation] 組織と情報技術のインターフェイスの動的適応の視座 (2014)
  • Author(s): 平野雅章
  • Organizer: 経営情報学会2014年秋季全国研究発表大会
  • Place of Presentation: 新潟、新潟国際情報大学
  • Year and Date: 2014-10-25 – 2014-10-26
• [Presentation] IT支援学習・教育の再考 (2014)
  • Author(s): 平野雅章
  • Organizer: 経営情報学会2014年春季全国研究発表大会
  • Place of Presentation: 相模原、青山学院大学
  • Year and Date: 2014-05-31 – 2014-06-01
• [Presentation] Return on IT Spending by Japanese Firms (2014)
  • Author(s): HIRANO, Masaaki
  • Organizer: Open Lecture
  • Place of Presentation: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford
  • Invited
• [Presentation] ITが組織IQに与えるインパクトの評価 (2013)
  • Author(s): 平野雅章
  • Organizer: 経営情報学会2013年春季全国研究発表大会
  • Place of Presentation: 慶應義塾大学
• [Presentation] IT投資の組織IQへのインパクト：定量的結果 (2013)
  • Author(s): 平野雅章
  • Organizer: 経営情報学会2013年秋季全国研究発表大会
  • Place of Presentation: 流通科学大学
• [Presentation] IT支援学習の分類のための枠組 (2013)
  • Author(s): 平野雅章、伊東久美子
  • Organizer: 経営情報学会2013年秋季全国研究発表大会
  • Place of Presentation: 流通科学大学
• [Presentation] Speculating on Efficacy of IT support on Learning (2013)
  • Author(s): HIRANO, Masaaki
  • Organizer: JPAIS/JASMIN Annual International Conference 2013
  • Place of Presentation: Bocconi University, Milan
• [Presentation] ITが組織IQに与えるインパクトの評価 (2013)
  • Author(s): 平野雅章
  • Organizer: 一般社団法人 経営情報学会
  • Place of Presentation: 慶應義塾大学（三田）
• [Presentation] 組織IQ変数へのITインパクトの評価 (2012)
  • Author(s): 平野雅章
  • Organizer: 一般社団法人 経営情報学会
  • Place of Presentation: 金沢星陵大学
• [Book] 『経営情報システム（第４版）』、担当：第７章「IT投資の効果とその測定」 (2015)
  • Author(s): 平野雅章
  • Publisher: 中央経済社