An Empirical Study Of It Acceptance And Enterprise Organizational Agility

With the development and diffusion of information technology (IT) in broader business practices, the problem of how to improve the degree of user acceptance and usage of IT becomes one of the new emergent .focuses in information management field. The assimilation of IT and astute management of information resources are keys to survival in the modern business world. And we point out that IT improve agility of enterprise organization is through lowering transaction cost , shortening operational time , improving human rationality , controlling opportunism , urging enterprise organization 'construction and decision way to transform. Although many researchers have identified key factors of IT acceptance, the literature shows no empirical examination of the relationships between external variables, IT acceptance, and organizational agility. The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of perceived ease of use of IT and perceived usefulness of IT on IT acceptance and adoption and how the use of IT contributes to a firm's ability to be an agile competitor.Based on a well-established theoretical model, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), this article examined the influence of information technology (IT) acceptance on organizational agility. We attempted to identify the relationships between IT acceptance and organizational agility in order to see how the acceptance of technology contributes to a firm's ability to be an agile competitor. Structural equation modeling techniques were used to analyze the data. Results from a survey involving managers and executives in manufacturing firms showed that actual system or technology usage had the strongest direct effect on organizational agility. Meanwhile, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use of IT influenced organizational agility indirectly through actual systems or technology use and attitudes towards using the technology. The results have several implications for IS management.