The impact of the corporate strategy on information system strategy: A survey of portuguese financial corporations

• Autor(a) principal: Gonçalves, Vítor da Conceição
• Data de Publicação: 1997
• Outros Autores: António Palma dos, Reis, Duque, João
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/23547
• topic: Technology Adoption; Banking Industry; Information Technology; Strategy; Portugal

The expansion and evolution of the Portuguese financial sector, together with the information technologies promises of delivering competitive advantage, lead us to research the information technology adoption patterns in the Portuguese financial sector. We hypothesised that the adoption of specific information technologies should depend on specific strategic variables, such as competitive strategies, competitive aspects, geographic strategies and business environment. We also hypothesised that firms adopting one information technology are more likely to adopt other information technologies, and that there is a sequence pattern in the adoption of new information technologies. We confirmed most of the components of the first hypothesis, that is, the adoption of specific information technologies depend on specific strategic variables, as well as the hypothesis that firms adopting one information technology are more likely to adopt other information technologies, and that there is a sequence pattern in the adoption of new information technologies. After identifying that there is a sequence pattern, we classified different information technologies according to their place in the adoption sequence.