Impact of Information Technology Capability on Financial Performance of Chinese Listed Companies during the Period of Economic Downturn

摘要：

　　The information technology (IT) resource-based view suggests that IT capability is one of the determinants of a finns competitive advantage and financial performance.However, we know relatively little about the relationship between IT capability and financial performance during the period of economic downturn.Even fewer research related to this is done in China as the largest emerging We used the matched sample comparison group method to collect data from 248 listed companies before and after the 2008 financial crisis during 2007-2009, and to investigate the impacts of IT capability on financial performance during economic downturn.The findings show that even during the period of financial crisis,companies with superior IT capability have better average profit ratios than a control sample of companies, but differences in the cost ratio of suggest no statistical significance between two samples.

关键词： IT capability resource-based view financial crisis matched sample comparison group method

作者: Jinnan Wu Lihua Huang Lin Liu

作者单位: School of Management, Fudan University, China;School of Business, Anhui University of Technology, Ch School of Management, Fudan University, China School of Management Science and Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The Thirteenth Wuhan International Conference on E-Business(第十三届武汉电子商务国际会议)(WHICEB2014)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 532-539

在线出版日期: 2014-05-31（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）