Start Date

11-8-2016

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As an increasing number of organizations started allowing their employees to bring and to adopt consumer IT (i.e., consumerization of IT) for business purposes, more than one personal IT device (PITD) that is available to use to deal with a task has gradually become common. The combination of PITDs may, under certain conditions, provide support for different ways of carrying out an activity and may generate an overall better result than if each PITD within the PITD portfolio were working toward the same task individually. This study calls such a result multiple-PITD outperformance . To achieve multiple-PITD outperformance, the key may lie in increasing the benefits of multiple PITD use while decreasing its costs. This study proposes a model with six hypotheses to test this possibility. The results can contribute to our understanding on what situations may lead to better performance when using multiple PITDs to complete a task.

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Aug 11th, 12:00 AM

Using Single or Multiple Personal IT Devices? Exploring the Task Performance in Consumerization of IT

As an increasing number of organizations started allowing their employees to bring and to adopt consumer IT (i.e., consumerization of IT) for business purposes, more than one personal IT device (PITD) that is available to use to deal with a task has gradually become common. The combination of PITDs may, under certain conditions, provide support for different ways of carrying out an activity and may generate an overall better result than if each PITD within the PITD portfolio were working toward the same task individually. This study calls such a result multiple-PITD outperformance . To achieve multiple-PITD outperformance, the key may lie in increasing the benefits of multiple PITD use while decreasing its costs. This study proposes a model with six hypotheses to test this possibility. The results can contribute to our understanding on what situations may lead to better performance when using multiple PITDs to complete a task.