Task-Technology Fit and Individual Performance.

Author List: Goodhue, Dale L.; Thompson, Ronald L.;
MIS Quarterly, 1995, Volume 19, Issue 2, Page 213-236.
A key concern in Information Systems (IS) research has been to better understand the linkage between information systems and individual performance. The research reported in this study has two primary objectives: (1) to propose a comprehensive theoretical model that incorporates valuable insights from two complementary streams of research, and (2) to empirically test the core of the model. At the heart of the new model is the assertion that for an information technology to have a positive impact on individual performance, the technology: (1) must be utilized and (2) must be a good fit with the tasks it supports. This new mode! is moderately supported by an analysis of data from over 600 individuals in two companies. This research high-lights the importance of the fit between technologies and users' tasks in achieving individual performance impacts from information technology. It also suggests that task-technology fit, when decomposed into its more detailed components, could be the basis for a strong diagnostic tool to evaluate whether information systems and services in a given organization are meeting user needs.
Keywords: impact of information technology; individual performance; Task-technology fit
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#295 0.145 task fit tasks performance cognitive theory using support type comprehension tools tool effects effect matching types theories modification working time
#159 0.124 systems information objectives organization organizational development variety needs need efforts technical organizations developing suggest given effective designing lack help recent
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#284 0.063 users user new resistance likely benefits potential perspective status actual behavior recognition propose user's social associated existing base using acceptance
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