Relevância das pesquisas em tecnologia da informação: a percepção e o conhecimento de acadêmicos e gestores

• Autor(a) principal: Dantas, Gicele Fernandes Martins
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/3819
• topic: Administração; Relevância; Tecnologia da Informação; Relevance; Administration; Information Technology; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO

The area of Information Technology (IT) increased in the last years and consequently the number of academic researches in this area also increased. However, the huge number of production does not assure the quality of the produced papers. Usually the issue quality is discussed due to the irrelevance of these papers, in other words, due to the lack of impact of the research into the practical problems that occur in the organizations and society. It is also verified the lack of tools for effective measurement of researches relevance. In this sense, the main goal of this work is to verify the relevance of the researches developed into Management Science, particularly, in IT area. For this, a questionnaire was created, which is divided into two parts: the first part is based on the classic model of Benbasat and Zmud (1999), which proposes some evaluation dimensions to verify the relevance of researches, focusing on how interesting, actual, applicable and accessible the research is for the IT area; the second part investigates the impact of the IT researches into the academy and organization, through a syncretism test, applied to participants of Enanpad 2011 conference and IT managers of organizations in Paraíba, Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Norte, which tried to measure their knowledge about concepts related to strategic alignment in IT area. The test is structured into ten items, with four levels of difficulty; the scale, which was based on Chan and Reich (2007), Moreno, Cavazzote and Valente (2009), was proposed by the Strategic Alingment Model (SAM) (Henderson e Venkatraman,1993). The issue strategic alignment was chosen because of its relevance for CIO in the last years, which pointed out by Luftman e Ben-Zvi (2010). The results showed two branches of conclusion: the first is the necessity of a restructuration of the current system of production and dissemination of IT research results; the second branch showed that the researchers are unsatisfied with the big quantity of productions and the generalist aspects of these works, which is verified by a huge horizontal production and by the subjectivity involving the main issues discussed. The respondents proposed these two points during the application of the survey; they emphasize the complexity involving the inherent concepts of strategic alignment. The IT managers ask for a succinct and standardized researches aligned with the reality of the organizations.