Information technology performance: agency and upper echelon theories Available to Purchase

Utilizes an objective measure of the levels of investment/performance in information technology (IT) and tests a number of hypothesized relationships between IT performance and company′s control,governance and managerial characteristics; this measure is called the relative information technology index (RITI). Is founded, theoretically,on both agency and upper echelon theories; empirically, suggests meaningful relationships between IT investment/performance and management ownership, the ratio of outside to inside directors, and the age of the CEO.