Collaborative IT tools leveraging competence: antecedents and consequences
| dc.contributor.author | Pavlou, Paul | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dimoka, Angelika | |
| dc.contributor.author | Housel, Tom | |
| dc.date | 2006 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-03-14T16:58:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-03-14T16:58:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10945/396 | |
| dc.description | The following article is taken as an excerpt from the proceedings of the annual Acquisition Research Program. This annual event showcases the research projects funded through the Acquisition Research Program at the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School. Featuring keynote speakers, plenary panels, multiple panel sessions, a student research poster show and social events, the Annual Acquisition Research Symposium offers a candid environment where high-ranking Department of Defense (DoD) officials, industry officials, accomplished faculty and military students are encouraged to collaborate on finding applicable solutions to the challenges facing acquisition policies and processes within the DoD today. By jointly and publicly questioning the norms of industry and academia, the resulting research benefits from myriad perspectives and collaborations which can identify better solutions and practices in acquisition, contract, financial, logistics and program management. For further information regarding the Acquisition Research Program, electronic copies of additional research, or to learn more about becoming a sponsor, please visit our program website at: www.acquisitionresearch.org. For further information on or to register for the next Acquisition Research Symposium during the third week of May, please visit our conference website at: www.researchsymposium.org.;A fundamental problem for IS academics and managers is how collaborative IT tools can be properly used to create business value. To shed light on this problem, this paper introduces the notion of Collaborative IT Tools Leveraging Competence as the ability of groups to effectively leverage the IT functionalities of collaborative IT tools to facilitate their group activities. Collaborative IT Tools Leveraging Competence is conceptualized as a formative second-order construct formed by the group's effective use of the following six key IT functionalities: workspace sharing, conferencing, file sharing, scheduling, chat, and email. Collaborative IT Tools Leveraging Competence is hypothesized to facilitate group performance (process efficiency, project effectiveness, and situational awareness), particularly in intense work environments. To enhance a group's ability to effectively leverage collaborative IT tools, the study proposes a set of enabling factors: customization of the collaborative IT tools, the group's habit in using collaborative IT tools, the group's perceived usefulness and ease of use of collaborative IT tools, the group member's mutual trust, and the degree of environmental intensity. Data from 365 group managers support the proposed structural model with the antecedents and consequences of Collaborative IT Tools Leveraging Competence at different levels of environmental intensity. The paper discusses the study's contributions of better understanding the nature, antecedents, and consequences of Collaborative IT Tools Leveraging Competence. Implications for evaluating and enhancing the role of collaborative IT tools are discussed. | |
| dc.description | Third Annual Acquisition Research Symposium | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 11: ill. | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Graduate School of Business and Public Policy | en_US |
| dc.title | Collaborative IT tools leveraging competence: antecedents and consequences | en_US |
| dc.type | Technical Report | en_US |
| dc.contributor.corporate | Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.) | |
| dc.identifier.oclc | ocn318793713 | |
| dc.identifier.npsreport | NPS-AM-06-058 | |
| dc.description.distributionstatement | Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. |
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