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Quality in IS Research: Theory and Validation of Constructs for Service, Information, and System

Quality in IS Research: Theory and Validation of Constructs for Service, Information, and System. Yi Ding Detmar Straub Workshop 15 February 2007 University of Kansas. Agenda. Motivation Literature Review : Delone-McLean IS Success Model and Marketing Exchange Theories

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Quality in IS Research: Theory and Validation of Constructs for Service, Information, and System

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  1. Quality in IS Research: Theory and Validation of Constructs for Service, Information, and System Yi Ding Detmar Straub Workshop 15 February 2007 University of Kansas

  2. Agenda • Motivation • Literature Review : Delone-McLean IS Success Model and Marketing Exchange Theories • Problems with Existing Quality Constructs • Research Questions • Research Methods

  3. Motivation • Importance of quality dimensions in IS Success research (e.g. Delone and McLean, 1992) • Significant increase in quality research in recent years to meet organizational needs (e.g. Kettinger and Lee, 2005; Parasuraman and Zeithaml, 2005) • Atheoretical introduction of service quality into IS Success Model (Delone and McLean, 2003)

  4. Motivation • Lack of validation of instruments measuring quality • Little work exploring relational links among information quality, system quality, and service quality • No studies finding a clear link between service quality and satisfaction

  5. Delone & McLean IS Success Categories (1992)

  6. Delone & McLean Models

  7. Sub-Constructs of Quality To Date • Taxonomy based on existing information theory: Shannon and Weaver (1949) • System Quality – Technological (“technical”) Level • Accuracy and efficiency of the system which produces the information, centered around characteristics of IT artifacts that support service relationships • Information Quality – Semantic Level • Measures of information system output • Service Quality • No theoretical definitions articulated • Performance oriented • Exchange oriented • Pseudo-relationship (co-generated by information system and customer)

  8. New Service Theories Needed (Marketing Exchange Theories) • Richard P. Bagozzi (1975): Social marketing and exchange • “In order to satisfy human needs, people and organizations are compelled to engage in social and economic exchanges with other people and organizations” • Leonard L. Berry (1980): Service marketing • A service is a “deed, act or performance” • A. Parasuraman, Valarie A. Zeithaml, & Leonard L. Berry (1985): SERVQUAL • Three well-documented characteristics of services – intangibility, heterogeneity, and inseparability

  9. New Service Theories Needed (Marketing Exchange Theories) • Barbara A. Gutek (1995): The dynamics of service • Service is “a special kind of interaction between a customer and a provider … an interaction that usually involves the exchange of money for service or goods” • J.S. Metcalfe (2001): Modern evolutionary economic perspectives: An overview • An exchange between two or more parties and a transformation (potentially intangible) received by a customer • Henry Chesbrough, Jim Spohrer (2006): A research manifesto for services science • It involves a negotiated exchange between a provider and an adopter (supplier and customer) for the provision of (predominately) intangible assets • The exchange is co-generated by both parties, and the process of adoption or consumption is an integral part of the transaction

  10. IS Role In Service Scenarios

  11. Problems with Existing Quality Constructs • There have been no complete tests of the DeLone-McLean 1992 or 2003 IS Success Model (nomological validity). • Each new researcher tends to develop his/her own quality measures and criteria but validation effort is often missing. • Most research focuses on understanding how information quality and system quality influence satisfaction.

  12. Existing (1) System, (2) Information,(3) Service Quality Constructs

  13. Petter and McLean Meta-analysis Working Paper - 2006

  14. Our Research Questions RQ1: What are the items that capture all essential characteristics of IS quality? RQ2: Are the constructs of System Quality, Information Quality, Service Quality distinct from each other? RQ3: What is the nomology of these constructs in the IS Success Model?

  15. RQ1-Questions of Content Validity Framing Theory / Theories

  16. RQ2 - Relationships among Constructs

  17. RQ3 – Test of Delone-McLean IS Success Model ( 2003) Not tested

  18. RQ3 - Our Alternative IS Success (Model 1)

  19. RQ3 - Our Alternative IS Success (Model 2)

  20. RQ3 - Our Alternative IS Success (Model 3)

  21. Research Methods for Our Study • Three Phases (following, to some extent, Moore and Benbasat, 1991) • Theorizing IS quality (Content validity) • Instrument development and validation (N=120) • Nomological validity tests (N>120)

  22. Phase 1 - Theorizing IS Quality:Role of IS in Service • IS as intermediary (e.g., Amazon) (Web server) (Web server)

  23. Phase 1 - Theorizing IS Quality:Role of IS in Service (continued) • IS as co-producer (e.g., Amazon)

  24. Phase 1 - Theorizing IS Quality:Role of IS in Service (continued) • IS as support for providing service (e.g., Amazon)

  25. Phase 2: Factor Analysis • Questionnaire development • Items resulting from phase 1 • Factorial analysis • Formative and reflective construct validation • Test of reliability for reflective constructs

  26. Phase 2 : Other Validity Tests • Examination of first and second order of models for each construct • Discriminant validity • Convergent validity • Test using SEM

  27. Phase 3: Nomological Validity Tests • Test of DeLone-McLean IS Success Model • Examine wide ranges of theoretical linkages among IS success constructs

  28. Validity Checks in Phases

  29. Questions

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