Innovation budget pressure, quality of IS information, and departmental performance

Abstract

Evidence suggests that innovation budgets need to be carefully managed due to increasingly demanding markets, changes in technology and greater international competition. Companies often express concern over the magnitude of their innovation costs, potentially inhibiting them from investing in new product development. This has given rise to concern for innovation budget pressure, which focuses on constraining costs to budgeted levels even if further expenditure might facilitate enhancements in terms of the quality and speed of the innovation process. However, suggestions have been made that decision systems in these settings could benefit in terms of performance outcomes from improvements in information system (IS) information quality. The literature suggests that the impact of quality of IS information on departmental performance is dependent on whether there is an emphasis on innovation budget pressure. The results of this study show that when innovation budget pressure is high, quality of IS information enhances performance. In contrast, when the emphasis on innovation budget pressure is low, quality of IS information does not promote performance.