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Dissertation Information for Anil Singh

NAME:
- Anil Singh

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- University of Texas, Austin (USA) (1999)

ADVISORS:
- E. Glynn Harmon

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Irene Owens
- Ronald E. Wyllys
- Donald G. Davis Jr.
- Vijay Mahajan

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: The information technology, risk and return triad: A longitudinal analysis of corporate financial data

Abstract: This study focuses on understanding the relationship between Information Technology (IT) investments, risk and returns of more than 500 firms identified annually for the years 1988-98 as the biggest and best companies by the annual surveys of popular IT magazines. It analyzes their IT expenditures, their financial statements, and their daily market returns for the period 1988-98 in order to identify the impact of IT investments on market returns, capital structures, financial ratios, and accounting statements of firms. It is one of the few studies that explore the relationship between IT spending and corporate performance adjusted for risk. It argues that both the quantity and quality of information that firms process or generate affect their performance. Accordingly, it examines the impact of the interaction between IT spending and IT management practices on risk-adjusted corporate performance. Further, it attempts to obtain information about firms that are effective users of IT as well as the conditions under which IT's contribution to corporate performance is positive. It does this by comparing and contrasting firms that are heavy users of IT and have high profitability with those firms that are heavy users of IT but have low profitability, as also firms that have high profitability and are heavy users of IT with those firms that have high profitability but are low users of IT. The analysis reveals very few strong and general correlations between corporate spending on IT and their overall financial performance. However, moderate correlations are apparent in industries where real-time processing of information is essential such as transportation or financial services industry, or where IT investments correlate with product innovations, research and development, or sales and advertising expenditures. Similarly, moderate correlations are apparent for firms that lead IT innovations, that are heavily capitalized, or that have high capitalization growth rates. Beyond these moderate correlations, the relationship between IT investments and overall corporate profitability appears non-evident. A more fruitful line of inquiry might be to seek out correlations between information quality and financial performance.

MPACT Scores for Anil Singh

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calculated 2008-01-31 06:25:52

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