Paper Type
Short
Paper Number
PACIS2025-1514
Description
A procurement professional is an intensive decision-making occupation facing oceans of information and data from internal and external sources. Analytics is becoming a crucial occupational capability for procurement professionals in the digital era. However, limited research has explored the factors influencing individual professionals to make analytics-based decisions and the mechanisms through which these factors operate at work. Through the affordance-actualization lens, a quantitative approach is employed in this occupation-specific study to hypothesize the moderation of effective use, represented by contextual information quality, between the salient affordance for analytical decision-making and the actualized analytical decision-making frequency at the individual level. Enabling factors composing the salient affordance are identified from the socio-technical system. Upon completion, the study aims to expand the theoretical knowledge regarding affordance actualization and procurement analytics. It also seeks to provide managerial implications regarding individuals’ shifting towards analytical decision-making to support their job roles.
Recommended Citation
Liu, Fei; Jafarzadeh, Hamed; and Safari, Narges, "Actualizing affordance for analytical decision-making to support the procurement job role" (2025). PACIS 2025 Proceedings. 2.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2025/general_topic/general_topic/2
Actualizing affordance for analytical decision-making to support the procurement job role
A procurement professional is an intensive decision-making occupation facing oceans of information and data from internal and external sources. Analytics is becoming a crucial occupational capability for procurement professionals in the digital era. However, limited research has explored the factors influencing individual professionals to make analytics-based decisions and the mechanisms through which these factors operate at work. Through the affordance-actualization lens, a quantitative approach is employed in this occupation-specific study to hypothesize the moderation of effective use, represented by contextual information quality, between the salient affordance for analytical decision-making and the actualized analytical decision-making frequency at the individual level. Enabling factors composing the salient affordance are identified from the socio-technical system. Upon completion, the study aims to expand the theoretical knowledge regarding affordance actualization and procurement analytics. It also seeks to provide managerial implications regarding individuals’ shifting towards analytical decision-making to support their job roles.
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