Measuring The Impact Of Information System Capabilities On Firm Performance

Measuring The Impact Of Information System Capabilities On Firm Performance Kısa Özet

Dr.  Arafat Salih Aydiner should be commended for his meticulon efforts to investigate the interrelationships hetween information systems (IS)-related capabilities and their effects on firm performance-based a sample of 204 firms in Turkey.  Using the resource-based view (RBV), he develops a set of hypotheses to examine these links, considering the role that may be played by decision-making performance and business-process performance as mediating variables.  It is a good reference book for scholars in the field of management information systems (MIS), managers, policymakers, and graduate students.  It is a very good addition to the IS literature on major emerging countries such as Turkey.  Dr.  Aydiner contributes to the IS literature in a number of ways.  First, specifying IS capabilities with resources and competencies enables the use of the RBV to better explore the strategic value of IS.  Second, a new serial multiple mediator model is designed to consider the influence of decision-making performance and business-process performance on the relationship between IS-related capabilities (i.e., infrastructure, human resources, and administrative) and firm performance.  It is envisaged that the adoption of this approach creates a distinct epistemology for organizations to have a strategic IS perspective.  he book contains a useful bibliography.

Ekrem Tatoglu

Professor at Gulf University for Science and

Technology (GUST) and Ibn Haldun University (IHU)

Istanbul, Turkey