The Analyzing Effect of Using Information Technology and Entrepreneurial Orientation on Organizational Performance in Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Firms

Advanced Social Humanities and Management 1(3) 2014:35-50

16 Pages Posted: 10 Jan 2015

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Ali ShaemiBarzaki

Assistant Professor of Management, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

Omid Baharestan

Esfahan University, Esfahan, Iran

Peyman Akbari

Department of Management, Payame Noor University, I.R. of Iran; Department of Management, Payame Noor University, I.R of IRAN

Date Written: January 8, 2015

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to Analysis of the effects of applying information technology and entrepreneurial orientation on organizational performance. This study is practice in term of goal and is descriptive – survey in term of methodology. The statistical population of this study is manufacturing companies, Alborz drug, Sobhana drug and Sobhana oncology that include 848 employees. In order to determine sample size, Table used and 260 employees selected as sample members by random sampling method. The questionnaire was used to gather data. The Validity (content, convergent, divergent) and Reliability (Loadings factors, composite reliability coefficient, Cronbach's alpha coefficient) of questionnaires showed that measurement tools have very good reliability and validity. In order to analyze data and conclude results, SMART-PLS used. The results of this study indicate that information technologies influence entrepreneurial orientation, also entrepreneurial orientation and information technology variables have meaningful effects on organizational performance. Also the results indicate that information technologies consider as moderating variable that increase effect of entrepreneurial orientation on organizational performance. On the other hand, results showed that entrepreneurial orientation has Mediator role in the impact of information technology on organizational performance.

Keywords: information technology, entrepreneurial orientation, organizational performance, partial least squares method, manufacturing pharmaceutical firms

Suggested Citation

ShaemiBarzaki, Ali and Baharestan, Omid and Akbari, Peyman and Akbari, Peyman, The Analyzing Effect of Using Information Technology and Entrepreneurial Orientation on Organizational Performance in Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Firms (January 8, 2015). Advanced Social Humanities and Management 1(3) 2014:35-50, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2546853

Ali ShaemiBarzaki

Assistant Professor of Management, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran ( email )

Isfahan
Iran

Omid Baharestan

Esfahan University, Esfahan, Iran ( email )

Isfahan
Iran

Peyman Akbari (Contact Author)

Department of Management, Payame Noor University, I.R. of Iran ( email )

kermanshah
Iran

Department of Management, Payame Noor University, I.R of IRAN ( email )

kermanshah
Iran

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