School Level Information System (IS) Discontinuance Intention: A Case Study on Information System (IS) Discontinuance of Surigao State College of Technology SSCT

Vrian Jay Ylaya

doi:10.4236/iim.2020.124009

Abstract

Educational institutions implement school information system (IS) solutions for efficient academic processes and improve the student experience, and thus tend to upgrade to new school IS, ceasing the use of old school IS. Extant studies of information system discontinuance are in organizational in general. This study is solely a school organization setting, specifically a thorough understanding of contributing factors that facilitate the intention of school information system (IS) discontinuance. Organizational level IS discontinuance intention OLIDI model was used as a lens and anchored by grounded theory. Semi-Structured interviews were used to collect data from school administrators and users of information system (IS) of Surigao State College of Technology. A qualitative statistics approach and coding of words are used to analyze the intention of IS discontinuance and provide model for school setting IS discontinuance. The findings show that system shortcomings, organizational initiative, environmental change, system investment, and institutional pressures were the critical determinants of increased intentions to replace the existing school information system (IS). The study findings are useful to school administrators to identify long term flexibility required for policies to overcome the capability of shortcomings that emerge over the system life span and underline risk associated with continued use of unsupported systems.

Highlights

Teaching, learning, and administration in schools are incorporated with the school information system (IS) to boost school performance and effectiveness [1]
The findings show that system shortcomings, organizational initiative, environmental change, system investment, and institutional pressures were the critical determinants of increased intentions to replace the existing school information system (IS)
This paper explores the information system (IS) discontinuance of Surigao State College of Technology in some depth with a view toward improving the understanding of what drives an information system (IS) toward the end of its life

Summary

Introduction

Teaching, learning, and administration in schools are incorporated with the school information system (IS) to boost school performance and effectiveness [1]. School administrator’s salience of inadequate attention to the discontinuance of obsolete information system (IS) because of the risk to the whole school operation will have an impact on the system complexity, system change, and resources [5]. The result of the study shows that the discontinuance of the old information system of Surigao State College of Technology was associated with the system shortcomings, organizational initiative, environmental change, system investment, and institutional pressures. This factor of school information system (IS) discontinuance can help school administrator overcome capability of shortcomings that emerge over the information system (IS) life span and underline risk associated with continued use of unsupported systems

Theoretical Framework

Change Force

Continuance Inertia

Research Methodology

Results and Discussion

Conclusion