Studying the Effects of Information and Communication Technology Acceptance on Organizational Agility

Subject Areas : مدیریت

SeyedYaser Ebrahimian Jolodar ¹ , Majid Fattahi ²

1 - Ph.D student, Department of Business Management, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Business Management, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran

Received: 2020-02-02 Accepted : 2020-02-02 Published : 2018-02-20

Keywords: Agile organization, Saipa, Organizational Agility, information and communication technology,

Abstract :

Increasingly speed of technological change; changing in the nature of customers' demands and competition intensity among organizations, have caused organizations and companies to be in search of new competitive advantages for over the rivals and better supply of customers' demands. It seemed that the movement towards the organizations which are highly flexible and speedy in response to changing and unsustainable environment is the new and critical solution. Achievement of such targets resulted in the light of organizational agility as a new concept. On the other hand, using information technology and communication increase the knowledge and awareness of staff and job enrichment and the knowledge of staff causing that they control their business and organizations professionally. Then it could be claimed that the organizations which technology is dominated, staff have more power and flexibility to deal with environmental changes. So, the purpose of this study is to examines the effects of information and communication technology acceptance on organizational agility in SAIPA Co. in Tehran. The population of this study was 505 people and the sample number became 177. The results showed that the acceptance information technology and communication have a significant effect on the company's agility. Also the study revealed that among three outer variables of user experience, organizational support and quality of information, the effects of user experience on perception of ease of use and effectiveness of acceptance information technology and communication is more than two other variables.