“The Impact of Information Technology Investments on Downside Risk of the Firm: Alternative Measurement of the Business Value of IT”
This article was written by Samuel Oimt, Kevin Dow, Jeffrey Wong and Varun Grover. In the article they look into the effects of investing in information technology to companies that publicly announced their investment in the technology (Otim et al, 2012, p.159). They also did a research to determine whether different types of technological investment have different effects on firm downside risk. They found out that investment in informational and transformational technology resulted to reduced downside risk and investments in technology for the sake of competition for instance automating functioning of business procedures also led to a drop in downside risk but this occurred only when the investment was done in equality with the industry participants.
The research study was done in line with the ethics of research (Gregory, 2003, p.27). The report contains a background where the risks are discussed. There is a methodology section which states event study as the method of data collection. There is also a section that highlights the processes of data collection and analysis. The research is concluded by a conclusion. The article is wrapped up by a section of references which contains a list of all the sources of information that were used in the preparation of this article.
Based on what I have learned, the research was done in a professional manner. This is because it contains all the sections a research paper is supposed to have: Survey, Methodology, Data collection, Analysis, Conclusions, and References (Davino & Fabbris, 2013, p.137). They were also arranged in the correct manner. I therefore think that this research was done well in accordance to ethics of research.
Reference
Davino, C., & Fabbris, L. (Eds.). (2013). Survey data collection and integration. Springer.
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Gregory, I. (2003). Ethics in research. London: Continuum. Retrieved from
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Otim, S., Dow, K. E., Grover, V., & Wong, J. A. (2012). The Impact of Information
Technology Investments on Downside Risk of the Firm: Alternative Measurement of the Business Value of IT. Journal Of Management Information Systems, 29(1), 159-194. Retrieved from http://www.igi-global.com/article/effects-investments-information-technology-firm/62841
